Apologies to Mexico: The Drug Trade and GNP (Gross National Pain)

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Apologies to Mexico: The Drug Trade and GNP (Gross National Pain)

I apologize. There are so many things I could apologize for, from the way the U.S. biotech corporation Monsanto has contaminated your corn to the way Arizona and Alabama are persecuting your citizens, but right now I’d like to apologize for the drug war, the 10,000 waking nightmares that make the news and the rest that don’t.

You've heard the stories about the five severed heads rolled onto the floor of a Michoacan nightclub in 2006, the 300 bodies dissolved in acid by a servant of one drug lord, the 49 mutilated bodies found in plastic bags by the side of the road in Monterrey in May, the nine bodies found hanging from an overpass in Nuevo Laredo just last month, the Zeta Cartel’s videotaped beheadings just two weeks ago, the carnage that has taken tens of thousands of Mexican lives in the last decade and has terrorized a whole nation. I've read them and so many more. I am sorry 50,000 times over.

The drug war is fueled by many things, and maybe the worst drug of all is money, to which so many are so addicted that they can never get enough. It’s a drug for which they will kill, destroying communities and ecologies, even societies, whether for the sake of making drones, Wall Street profits, or massive heroin sales. Then there are the actual drugs, to which so many others turn for numbness.
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We are a nation of miserable optimists. We believe everything is possible and if you don’t have it all, from the perfect body to profound wealth, the fault is yours. When people suffer in this country -- from, say, foreclosures and bankruptcies due to the destruction of our economy by the forces of greed -- the shame is overwhelming. It’s seen as a personal failure, not the failure of our institutions. Taking drugs to numb your shame also keeps you from connecting the dots and opposing what’s taken you down.
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This part, I think, is particularly well-put.
 
^ Ya, I agree. And I think the author was unfair to group marijuana in with the "numbing agents."

I also think that the greater point here is that with the other Mexican cash crops (heroin, cocaine, meth), you're looking at substances that very well could start out as recreational, used for various reasons, but will all lead to the cycle of 'using to numb the pains of the collateral/mental/physical damage from using.' How much of that damage is intrinsic to the substance alone, or how much of it is a result of the societal drug war, I don't know. But ya, by the way these addictions act within the context of our society, one's going to quickly become numb to what goes on beyond one's local dealer. Again, we're not talking about eating mushrooms to better love our fellow humans - a drug is not a drug is a drug...
 
^ I agree.
RedLeader said:
a drug is not a drug is a drug...
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Absolutely.
But the difficulty in determining exactly what the differences are, in a scientific way, between different "drugs" is quite prohibitive.
After all, each one affects each individual differently at different doses!

Imagine if you had some kind of magic stone that shed light, but the light was seen as a range of different colors and different intensities that varied greatly among different human beings.
Now imagine that there were hundreds of thousands of such magic stones in existence, and there exists the potential to create around 1 novemdecillion--1 million billion billion billion billion billion billion -- more


And it is just so much easier to use propaganda to frame the discussion in convenient ways which support those with money and power.
 
no American drug user needs to apologize to Mexico. True, we create the demand that creates the market that unleashes the carnage. But we do not shape that market. This demand could fulfilled like any other demand is fulfilled: we could grow all our own weed, coca, poppy, etc. Or we could just peacefully import the stuff (are there wine wars in Bordeaux, France?). No drug user needs to abstain out of pity, or feel tinges of guilt. After all, we too are oppressed. And those who oppress us are the ones that shape the market to maximize their own profits.
 
23536 said:
no American drug user needs to apologize to Mexico. True, we create the demand that creates the market that unleashes the carnage. But we do not shape that market. This demand could fulfilled like any other demand is fulfilled: we could grow all our own weed, coca, poppy, etc. Or we could just peacefully import the stuff (are there wine wars in Bordeaux, France?). No drug user needs to abstain out of pity, or feel tinges of guilt. After all, we too are oppressed. And those who oppress us are the ones that shape the market to maximize their own profits.
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Nice post, Numbers.
 
Ive been anti monsanto about a year kow and about a month ago theres some mew construction starting across the street from my house... a few days later it says future site of monsanto biotech...
 
23536 said:
no American drug user needs to apologize to Mexico. True, we create the demand that creates the market that unleashes the carnage. But we do not shape that market. This demand could fulfilled like any other demand is fulfilled: we could grow all our own weed, coca, poppy, etc. Or we could just peacefully import the stuff (are there wine wars in Bordeaux, France?). No drug user needs to abstain out of pity, or feel tinges of guilt. After all, we too are oppressed. And those who oppress us are the ones that shape the market to maximize their own profits.
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Yea except we keep electing the same idiots who support the same policys. Its kind of uncomfortable but we do share some of the responsibility.
 
^ Only if they are one of the people who elected said leaders, I think anyway.
 
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