There is a new trend out of South Korea that feels both deeply innovative and slightly existential.
They are called dopamine sites.
You browse. You select. You add to cart. A courier accepts your order.
You can even track the delivery in real time.
And then nothing arrives.
It is fake shopping. A full emotional arc with no package at the end. Retail theater. Consumption cosplay.
Now as someone who has a long, committed, borderline spiritual relationship with Amazon, I get it. The click. The confirmation email. The tiny rush of “yes, this will improve my life in 2–5 business days.” That is not nothing. That is chemistry.
But here’s where I pause.
We are now so attached to the dopamine hit of acquiring that we no longer require the thing itself.
Not the shoes.
Not the candle.
Not the highly unnecessary but suddenly essential kitchen gadget.
Just the idea of it.
And I have questions.
Because part of the experience,the full psychological contract, is the arrival. The box. The opening. The brief, shining moment of “this changes everything,” followed almost immediately by “where do I put this?”
So what happens when the box never comes?
Do we sit there, staring at the tracking screen like it’s a situationship that said “on my way” three hours ago? Do we refresh? Do we hope? Do we grieve?
Is there a stage of mourning for imaginary packages?
I suppose the argument is that this is safer. No clutter. No spending. No buyer’s remorse. Just clean, efficient dopamine. But I’m not entirely convinced.
Because if we are now simulating fulfillment what does that say about how far we’ve drifted from actually feeling fulfilled?
Anyway. I’ll be over here, tracking a real package like a rational person.
It’s arriving between 2:00 and 6:00 PM.
Or so they say.
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psychologistmimi 
I think you have nailed it: forever missing in transit!
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acabei de ver que tem um dopamine site brasileiro http://www.dopaminashop.com.br kkkkk
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One Armed Bandit Life
True Dear Miriam i’ve Seen it
at Biloxi Casinos Visiting somewhat
Ironically With A Catholic Church Tour
Bus Intense Participant Anthropology Observer
Sort of Like Public Solo Dancing Reaching 60 Years
Old/Young for 6 Years at the Largest Metro Dance Hall
Yet only Once a Month for 5 Years at the Biloxi Beach Casino’s
Whereas at the Metro Dance Hall Every Thursday College Night
Where Students Ages 18 to 20 Had to Dance Without Spirited Drink
to get the
Courage
to Move
Off Wall
Flower Mode
Always Looking forward
To A Next Mixed Courage
Drink to Acquire the Goals of Human Connection
Yet Back to the Casino’s All the Dopamine Generating
Sounds and Colorful Lights of the One Armed Bandit Machines
The Target Audience Mostly Senior Citizens on Fixed Incomes like
The Folks Riding
The Church
Tour Bus
The House Wins
The House Winds
The House Wins Again
Yet Only If Folks
Are Willing to
Become part
of the Target
Audience as that
Applies to Online Sales too
For Whatever Target Audience
Will Be Convinced to Press the Lever
For the Next Gift Goal that is Usually a Noun
And Not the Gift Of Generating Our Own Pleasurable
And Secure Warm and Fuzzy Pain Killing Dopamine
Serotonin Oxytocin and Endorphin Neurochemicals
And Neurohormones Through on Task Focus in Flow
Increasing Creative Complexities Warm And Free Together
With Others too True why a Free Dance Plays So Well as
Every Move Becomes Joy
From Head to Toe for Real
Just giving sharing caring
healing each other with most
respect and least Harm and Yes
of course NO MEANS NO too as that
Comes and Goes in Public Dance Halls too
Perfecting the Solo Public Dance a Never Ending
Practice of Life where the Destination is Always Now
In a Balancing Toe to Head Flow of Dance With No Lessons
Again It’s Like this Free Verse Flow had having no idea what Word
i Would Begin With as there is No difference in the Ending Now or
Beginning
Always arriving
Now in case someone
asks me ‘If i Know Where
i am going” Common Below
The ‘Bible Belt’ Over HeaR in
Foot Loose
Deep South
Southern
States
too Where
there is Nothing
to Win as You
Already LiVE
Within in
Heaven
For Real
Eternally Now
Yep Just Killing Time for Free Hehe…
Oh and what did i do at the Biloxi Beach
Casinos i Danced For a While Inside Generating
SMiLes for Others Blissfully like Snoopy Jumping for Joy
Wandering Out to The Beaches Enjoying Blissful oneness Dancing
Free With The Most Beautiful
Pastel Sunsets Over
the somewhat
Polluted and
Dead Biloxi Beaches
Yet who needs Salt Water
When You Generate Your Own
Food and Drink
Peace of
Body Blood
New Of Loving It All
Now True ‘South Korean Fake Shopping’
Is also a somewhat effective
Happy Hack Yet Free Dance
Doesn’t Come
With All the
Digital Paperwork hAha…
Anyway whatever it takes
to escape ‘Target Audience’..:)
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My life became simpler after I retired. So I dropped Amazon. I never had a late or stolen package, thankfully. Good luck.
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