We need a reset. Not a WEF reset, but a reset of unhealthy consumer and dopamine-seeking habits.

Let’s be honest, the developed world is fat, lazy, and addicted to technology and instant gratification of the desire for novelty. It’s not a good thing for anyone to have no self-discipline, no patience, no gratitude, no willingness to make do with what you have, no ability to fix things, no social skills, etc. You know all those virtues that our grandparents had that made them the “greatest generation” ?

Thanks to ‘progress’, most of us are staring at various-sized screens from the moment we wake up until we finally fall asleep, and some even wake up and look at their phones during the night! The addiction is REAL.

Technology has reset our brains in a very scary way. It is a literal addiction and we all know it. Our brains crave the dopamine we get from technology’s instant rewards!

How many of you can barely concentrate long enough to finish reading this article? How many have quit reading books, having actual conversations, taking walks without technology, quit leaving the house, doing social activities because you can’t be without your technology drug for more than 2 minutes?

Not only that, and this is the real point of the article, thanks to the fake economy, the prices of everything have been UPREGULATED to the breaking point. Everything is way overvalued. Houses, cars, stocks, gold, crypto are at unsustainable prices, in my humble opinion, and will come crashing down soon.

Think of it like when you go on vacation and you eat, eat, eat and then you come home and your stomach is all stretched out and you are craving highly salted and sweet foods. You have to downregulate your taste buds and belly back to your normal diet.

So what I am proposing is that we all recognize that we have lost control of our consumption and technology habits, have some self-discipline. If we want prices to come down and life to stop being insane, we have to stop looking at reels and Instagram, stop ordering off Amazon, stop doing ‘retail therapy’, stop buying the latest and newest things, and let prices and dopamine come back down to healthier levels. Get off the phone, stop binging Netflix, go for a walk, call a friend, read a book, get out in the yard with the kids, dog, wife, cook a meal from scratch. I’m talking to myself, too!

This is the reset we need. We have let ourselves go. We have become useless eaters. It’s time for a diet.