Wear the Scarf, Take a Hit in Dopamine Alley

Moral branding, dopamine politics, and the end of argument. No paywall.

“I was never addicted to just one thing. I was addicted to the state.”

— William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs was not speaking metaphorically. He was one of the most famous American writers of the mid-twentieth century, the author of Naked Lunch (published in 1959), and a man who spent much of his adult life addicted to heroin and other drugs. He wro…