A review by streberkatze
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke

Did not finish book. Stopped at 32%.
Lack of systemic analysis and exploration of the systemic causes of addiction. (And no, "we should work as much as people in the 19th century did" is not that. In fact, it's a deeply problematic, ahistorical argument.) There's also a disturbingly puritan view of some of the sexual preferences discussed in the book. Again, little systemic analysis of what is considered deviant and what is not and why. The straw that broke the camel's back was the superficial reference to the policing of women's bodies in different religious contexts. Good thing there are more interesting explorations of the subject now.
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