VelocideX
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I've decided that the whole concept of "blowing up" is rather fake and puerile.
eg. "man i did xxxx roll trick and blew up so hard!!" or
"let me give you a lightshow and you'll blow up".
It could just be me generalising, but this sort of activity seems to be confined largely to North America - we don't get anything like these phrases down here, nor the equivalent activity
(in Australia)
It seems to me that this sort of behaviour is designed to enhance/amplify the feelings of MDMA at the expense of the social side of the drug.
It makes people want to take MDMA solely for the purpose of feeling good... rather than wanting to be sociable and talk, they always want to be "blowing up" or to make other people "blow up".
Whilst you might argue that making other people "blow up" is sociable, it really isn't. You're enhancing their drug high, but not really doing anything with it.
Taking drugs for the sake of how they feel is one of the first steps on the road to either addiction or self-medication. Neither is good.
MDMA is inherently a social drug - it makes you reach out and connect to others vis a vis "the hug drug" / "the love drug" / "the party drug". In my view, like many others, this drug can make a good time better; it can bring people closer together; it can enhance your appreciation of yourself and other around you.
Merely using it because you want to feel good is antisocial, and perhaps more importantly, portrays MDMA use in a fairly negative light. An outside observer of the first rave scene described above would see scores upon scores of people taking the drug to feel good, and then spending hours upon hours doing things to make the drug feel "even better". It's not particularly positive, and does nothing to lend credibility to the rave scene, nor MDMA use in general.
The second scene described is superlative, in that it furthers the ideals that humans ascribe to, and portrays a bunch of people using drugs not just to have fun, but to better themselves and those around them.
Even if you don't accept that people are trying to better themselves, a sociable, friendly, interacting drug population is preferable (in my eyes) to one who is merely trying to take hedonism one step further.
One is truly a group; the other mere individuals seeking a better high.
eg. "man i did xxxx roll trick and blew up so hard!!" or
"let me give you a lightshow and you'll blow up".
It could just be me generalising, but this sort of activity seems to be confined largely to North America - we don't get anything like these phrases down here, nor the equivalent activity
(in Australia)
It seems to me that this sort of behaviour is designed to enhance/amplify the feelings of MDMA at the expense of the social side of the drug.
It makes people want to take MDMA solely for the purpose of feeling good... rather than wanting to be sociable and talk, they always want to be "blowing up" or to make other people "blow up".
Whilst you might argue that making other people "blow up" is sociable, it really isn't. You're enhancing their drug high, but not really doing anything with it.
Taking drugs for the sake of how they feel is one of the first steps on the road to either addiction or self-medication. Neither is good.
MDMA is inherently a social drug - it makes you reach out and connect to others vis a vis "the hug drug" / "the love drug" / "the party drug". In my view, like many others, this drug can make a good time better; it can bring people closer together; it can enhance your appreciation of yourself and other around you.
Merely using it because you want to feel good is antisocial, and perhaps more importantly, portrays MDMA use in a fairly negative light. An outside observer of the first rave scene described above would see scores upon scores of people taking the drug to feel good, and then spending hours upon hours doing things to make the drug feel "even better". It's not particularly positive, and does nothing to lend credibility to the rave scene, nor MDMA use in general.
The second scene described is superlative, in that it furthers the ideals that humans ascribe to, and portrays a bunch of people using drugs not just to have fun, but to better themselves and those around them.
Even if you don't accept that people are trying to better themselves, a sociable, friendly, interacting drug population is preferable (in my eyes) to one who is merely trying to take hedonism one step further.
One is truly a group; the other mere individuals seeking a better high.