Ksa
Ex-Bluelighter
Youtube video found at the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cig...rbpMflmDOmbmPctf9u-MpDbnaVvSeTVOQlZyEXWFN8jtw
Focus on understanding her family's opinion of her before drug use and after drug use. Lay forth your ideas on why there is that sense of loss, as if the person on drugs died or is no more, when she is clearly in front of them talking and acting happy? A loss of what? Any deep brains around for some explanations:
- She was the sweetest thing, everybody loved her;
- She was such a presence;
- She was a star;
- Her nickname was go-go cause she was always up and running and she's so full of life and energy;
- She was a big show-off;
I often distinguish the hyperactivity component, the emotional component and the ego/hero component:
1) Hyperactivity component:
Society views hyperactivity as a sign of life and energy. It falsely assumes that if energy is not expressed in a dynamic form, it does not exist. Attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder teaches us that expressing your energy dynamically is actually more of a disease than anything else. Sadly, people who express their energy dynamically benefit more the people around them and less themselves and so they tend to be appreciated.
Then, when their dopamine increases to a level where they can use their energy internally, everybody has a problem with that. Society now perceives them as no longer having any vitality, not because they have no vitality, but because the vitality that they have is now only useful to themselves and no longer useful to the people around them. They are no longer entertained by the hyperactive individual who is in fact hyperactive out of boredom and lack of self-enjoyment.
2) Emotional component:
Before trying drugs, living an emotional life might have seemed like a nice refuge from boredom, but when boredom is annihilated by drugs like meth, the individual begins constructing their existence around other things, since emotions are no longer needed. Of course, society being highly dependent on emotional support, when they lose this emotional support from the individual, they begin complaining in various ways, many of which are portrayed in that video. Their favorite way is to point out the fact that the individual has a drug problem, when in fact they're the ones who are hurt by the loss of such emotional support.
3) The ego/hero component:
Society has a need to feel special, above others in some way, to be distinguished, competitive, and to break above the noise in any possible way. Everybody tries to be Superman, and they all validate and remunerate Superman wannabees, because they can't accept the fact that they're mortal and that they're going to die. When drugs take away the anxiety of being a mortal and having to die, all of a sudden the need to feel special and be a hero to your community vanishes.
All of a sudden, the individual is perceived as having no ambition, goals, motivation, empathy, not being competitive, not striving to become better in some way, and the list goes on with respect to why the individual has a problem. What society fails to mention is that, rather than acquiring a problem, the individual actually found a cure to his/her problem that can be described by the long list above. Maybe the will to achieve something is a form of spiritual hyperactivity that arises from insufficient brain chemicals that the drug provides. Maybe the individual perceived as having a problem, is in fact the only one around not having one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cig...rbpMflmDOmbmPctf9u-MpDbnaVvSeTVOQlZyEXWFN8jtw
Focus on understanding her family's opinion of her before drug use and after drug use. Lay forth your ideas on why there is that sense of loss, as if the person on drugs died or is no more, when she is clearly in front of them talking and acting happy? A loss of what? Any deep brains around for some explanations:
- She was the sweetest thing, everybody loved her;
- She was such a presence;
- She was a star;
- Her nickname was go-go cause she was always up and running and she's so full of life and energy;
- She was a big show-off;
I often distinguish the hyperactivity component, the emotional component and the ego/hero component:
1) Hyperactivity component:
Society views hyperactivity as a sign of life and energy. It falsely assumes that if energy is not expressed in a dynamic form, it does not exist. Attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder teaches us that expressing your energy dynamically is actually more of a disease than anything else. Sadly, people who express their energy dynamically benefit more the people around them and less themselves and so they tend to be appreciated.
Then, when their dopamine increases to a level where they can use their energy internally, everybody has a problem with that. Society now perceives them as no longer having any vitality, not because they have no vitality, but because the vitality that they have is now only useful to themselves and no longer useful to the people around them. They are no longer entertained by the hyperactive individual who is in fact hyperactive out of boredom and lack of self-enjoyment.
2) Emotional component:
Before trying drugs, living an emotional life might have seemed like a nice refuge from boredom, but when boredom is annihilated by drugs like meth, the individual begins constructing their existence around other things, since emotions are no longer needed. Of course, society being highly dependent on emotional support, when they lose this emotional support from the individual, they begin complaining in various ways, many of which are portrayed in that video. Their favorite way is to point out the fact that the individual has a drug problem, when in fact they're the ones who are hurt by the loss of such emotional support.
3) The ego/hero component:
Society has a need to feel special, above others in some way, to be distinguished, competitive, and to break above the noise in any possible way. Everybody tries to be Superman, and they all validate and remunerate Superman wannabees, because they can't accept the fact that they're mortal and that they're going to die. When drugs take away the anxiety of being a mortal and having to die, all of a sudden the need to feel special and be a hero to your community vanishes.
All of a sudden, the individual is perceived as having no ambition, goals, motivation, empathy, not being competitive, not striving to become better in some way, and the list goes on with respect to why the individual has a problem. What society fails to mention is that, rather than acquiring a problem, the individual actually found a cure to his/her problem that can be described by the long list above. Maybe the will to achieve something is a form of spiritual hyperactivity that arises from insufficient brain chemicals that the drug provides. Maybe the individual perceived as having a problem, is in fact the only one around not having one.
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