Boredom.v2

Your brain runs on dopamine—not as pleasure, but as anticipation of reward. In Boredom 1.0, small rewards (a funny comic in the newspaper, a friend calling the landline) produced large dopamine spikes. In Boredom.v2, apps are engineered to deliver micro-doses every 15 seconds. After years of this, your baseline dopamine plummets. A 40-minute movie feels "too long." A two-hour dinner with friends feels "exhausting." You aren't bored of life; you are chemically dependent on novelty so cheap that real life can't compete.