5 ways Christians can dodge the dopamine cartels

An viral essay by historian Ted Giola says we need to act now if we want to save art and culture from the dopamine rush that is enslaving us all. Is it time for Christians to give up social media before it unleashes devastation on society?

A recent blog post by music historian, Ted Gioia, entitled ’The State of Culture, 2024’, has recently gone viral.

In it, Gioia presents a terrifying, dystopian vision of the consequences of mass addiction to the “distraction” offered by fast-moving social media content. This is transforming our behaviour and causing widespread unhappiness, he argues, as well as threatening to destroy the more traditional, long-form art and entertainment most of us take for granted.

He blames this development on “dopamine cartels” – large technology companies that deliberately produce addictive content that they know is harmful to its users.