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If so, we'll need (and we'll surely develop) social antibodies to protect us. E.g. we'll have to teach kids explicitly to avoid the kind of things you want, but don't make you happy.
Parents already warn kids about drugs, but few realize yet that this is just one instance of a more general lesson.
Hard to say how it plays out in the long term. Do we end up with a society that's 95% addicts and 5% people who understand the danger and resist it? Or does it play out like smoking, where the addiction spreads wildly at first, then shrinks?
The good news is, if we establish a general antibody against things you want that don't make you happy, it will work against many different smokings simultaneously. The bad news is that it will need to.
I think if you haven’t read him already, you might find Kent Berridge’s work distinguishing the neural paths for “liking” vs “wanting” interesting. I generally don’t think labeling media use as “addictive” very useful or accurate scientifically. But Berridge seems relevant here.
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