Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
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- Nov 3, 1999
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Well, I guess you're totally unfamiliar with Hart's work then, as he demonstrated what you're suggesting isn't the case. It's not saying there aren't people who wouldn't fall into such a pit, but the dangers aren't exactly what we've been led to believe is the norm. The lives of drug addicts are just as complicated as anyone else's. And just like you, they are anything but self evident.
Environment and choice, that's what shapes a life. And it is why it's way too complicated for the concept of "addict" to encompass.
The language you have been using in your posts is the language of prohibition and the war on drugs. And you have no idea what that even means. It's sickening, how insidious it is, the entire culture that prohibition and the war on drugs - and the people who have led it - has created. The sad thing is that it's been created to get inside you. Like I said, it's clear you have no or little idea what a lot of what you're saying even means, and that's sad. You're not an unloving or stupid person, that much is obvious. But intelligence, as we all know, has really nothing to do with it. At least in your posts here, you've been unknowingly enlisted in the cause of the war on drugs, and I'm guessing you probably don't even know it.
Hence why I stopped posting, and why I'm going to take another possibly permanent hiatus from this thread. While just like any addict you're responsible for your actions and what you post, but I do understand. Internalizing cultural aspects - especially language/syntax/mythologies - that promote the war on drugs happens to nearly all of us, at least at one time or another. I get it.
Understand: I'm not attacking you as a person, just the at times childishly, thoughtless content of your posts. And at times like now I have little tolerance for it, even if I can at least begin to understand it.
And really enough with this friend stuff. For every friend or person you've known who begin or continue to struggled with addiction, there are at least as many others you don't know who've been able to "somehow" moved on from what you understand as addiction. You go out and get addicted to crack and spend ever last cent of your grocery money on it if you want to prove this could happen to you. Who knows, maybe it wouldn't. Maybe it would. I don't think any of us would encourage it though - just as most crack users probably wouldn't.
You don't know enough about everyone else to make judgements on them like boiling down their entire selves to some narrow, bigoted addict mythos.
Environment and choice, that's what shapes a life. And it is why it's way too complicated for the concept of "addict" to encompass.
The language you have been using in your posts is the language of prohibition and the war on drugs. And you have no idea what that even means. It's sickening, how insidious it is, the entire culture that prohibition and the war on drugs - and the people who have led it - has created. The sad thing is that it's been created to get inside you. Like I said, it's clear you have no or little idea what a lot of what you're saying even means, and that's sad. You're not an unloving or stupid person, that much is obvious. But intelligence, as we all know, has really nothing to do with it. At least in your posts here, you've been unknowingly enlisted in the cause of the war on drugs, and I'm guessing you probably don't even know it.
Hence why I stopped posting, and why I'm going to take another possibly permanent hiatus from this thread. While just like any addict you're responsible for your actions and what you post, but I do understand. Internalizing cultural aspects - especially language/syntax/mythologies - that promote the war on drugs happens to nearly all of us, at least at one time or another. I get it.
Understand: I'm not attacking you as a person, just the at times childishly, thoughtless content of your posts. And at times like now I have little tolerance for it, even if I can at least begin to understand it.
And really enough with this friend stuff. For every friend or person you've known who begin or continue to struggled with addiction, there are at least as many others you don't know who've been able to "somehow" moved on from what you understand as addiction. You go out and get addicted to crack and spend ever last cent of your grocery money on it if you want to prove this could happen to you. Who knows, maybe it wouldn't. Maybe it would. I don't think any of us would encourage it though - just as most crack users probably wouldn't.
You don't know enough about everyone else to make judgements on them like boiling down their entire selves to some narrow, bigoted addict mythos.