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Melissa of [Truthstream Media](https://www.patreon.com/truthstreammedia) digs deep into a conspiracy so pervasive that it’s infiltrating the minds of mankind on a planetary level.

Megalithic corporate giants from silicon valley are acting as drug dealers slanging dopamine hits for _“free”_ to anyone who is willing to trade their privacy in exchange for that good feeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J2jgLX6XKc<center><sup>Video: [**YouTube.com/TruthstreamMedia**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J2jgLX6XKc)</sup></center>No, not that [Mr. Rogers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2w75thdlRw) good feeling, where you know that you’re alive. Rather, an empty good feeling. One that is generated in microdoses and dished out in the form of a post button that we tap on repeatedly in our neverending quest to mainline social validation.

_Likes-and-upvotes-and-the-like._ The hit crosses the blood-brain barrier at broadband speeds, but you've got it all under control, right?

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Gaining the admiration or approval of others used to be something that required a little bit more effort. Yet, now we’ve been turned into fiends. We seek out approval at every corner. Social media has virtualized virtue signaling on the worldwide web.

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_Want the approval of your friends? Say something trendy about something popular, or something unpopular about something trendy._

The irony of this is #metoo, I’m just as addicted as you! Hell, the only reason you’re reading this is that you are on the same drug as I am. They have even gone so far to spell it out quite nicely in their whitepaper.

<h2>The hooks are in, will we ever be able to escape?</h2>

Upvote this post, click your heels three times and say there’s no place like Rome, there’s no place like Rome. Why Rome you say?

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Well, if I get enough SBD from your upvotes maybe one day I’ll be able to escape this casino gulag and go on vacation there. I just hope I don’t trip, fall, & drown in the Tiber while trying to Snapchat you a pic of what Big Macs look like in Italy on Tuesdays.

><code>"The fact that everyone 'wins something' plays on the same **psychology that casinos use to keep people gambling.** In other words, small rewards help reinforce the idea that it is possible to earn bigger rewards." _[**(Page 16 of the steem whitepaper.)**](https://steem.io/steem-whitepaper.pdf)_</code>

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