People don't drive right, customers don't act right, co-workers do things that don't make sense, it explains some happenings in the blogosphere, you can throw in politics, the crap that passes for entertainment these days, Life in general. Yep, I'm talking about a little substance abuse action and I have become convinced over time that drugs alter the mind, the way we think, change the chemistry of our brains in some way and I'm including ALL illegal drugs from pot to the psychoactive class. Some drugs make you feel invincible, all-powerful and self-important and I'm half libertarian on the issue in the sense that drug users should never see the inside of a prison cell. However having said that these people are annoying as hell to deal with, the lack of a lucid grasp of a situation, the running roughshod over the normal course of human behavior, civilized modes, the paranoia, anxiety, lack of initiative, egomania and I am also convinced that 1/2 the population be on something, wouldn't be the lucrative business it is if people weren't.
It's not the war on drugs that's all wrong, it's the war on our minds.
The mind is a terrible thing to waste, as the anti-drug commercials used to say. Drug use may explain liberalism though.
ReplyDeleteWell social liberalism and the '60s are interrelated when you think about it. I was watching a repeat of FRINGE the other night and the old guy gave some woman massive amounts of hallucinogens so that she could retrieve some important memory about something and when it was all over and she was going away in her car he decided to go along for the ride just in case even though he explained to his son that he injected her with something to counter the hallucinogens,
ReplyDeletethat's fucked up.
Reading in the NY Post yesterday that the NYC Health Dept. recently spent about $32,000 of taxpayer dollars passing out pamphlets telling heroin addicts how to safely(?) shoot up. Knowing now what most of us probably didn't know then it would have been a great campaign issue in the last mayoral election.
ReplyDeleteJust when you think things can't get more ridiculous....
ReplyDeleteBut what I wanna know is how come this didn't crop in Mayor Bloomberg's bid for a 3rd term? Actually it turned out to be closer than expected against NYC Comptroller and black guy Bill Thompson with former Mayor David Dinkins chiming in that Obama didn't do enough for Thompson. It's all there in yesterday's New York Post with samples from that pamphlet.
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