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Patrick J. Kennedy

Patrick J. Kennedy

Businessman and former Massachusetts State Senator

Jun 9, 2026

10:25
I think we talked about as an example-
10:27
Uh, obviously everybody today is talking about how our kids' brains have been taken hostage, uh, by the tech industry, the social media, which have embedded these algorithms designed to capture their attention and reward their brain responses for their attention, this dopamine response.
10:51
Um, uh, there's a ki- psychiatrist from San Francisco wrote a book, Dopamine Nation, um, and it's just about how industry is manipulating our brains, you know, for its profits.
11:05
We have basically addiction-for-profit industries.
11:10
I mean, uh, most pronounced recently is the sports betting industry, which, uh, makes, you know, every bet you could ever imagine p- making right at the, your fingertips.
11:21
It's the roulette wheel right in your hand, and it's 24 hours a day.
11:26
And, um, you know, but that's on top of the new big tobacco.

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