Turns out nothing we've been taught about addiction is true. I first began to write and speak about the rise of a pernicious meta-addiction to all things media and all things digital back in the spring of 2004. Addiction in the 21st century, I claimed, was no longer the exception to the rule.
Simply and well-stated, Brody. In what I call the Great Age of Addiction, accountability has been converted from a reward for a job well done to a personal threat.
As someone who's "been there, got a postcard" with addiction and recovery, I can definitely confirm: there is no disease. We all make our choices. Some of us, though, choose to find every possible way we can run from personal accountability and responsibility
I think you are on to something. Especially that the millions being spent to pretend to cure something are not making a difference. The numbers are going up, not down. And yet we keep spending. Because it is the new American way to solve problems - throw money at it and it will go away. Or pass a law. Wah la. Fixed.
Thank you for the kind support, JFLB. The addiction recovery industry is like any other grievance industry, just another flavor of social engineering: billions invested in the false god of quasi science with nothing to show for it but more of the same. Billions invested in those being paid not to understand...
I grew up around people whose job it was to get people addicted. Get 'em hooked. I've literally, more times than I can possibly count, remember hearing corner boys tell some random fiend things like "I know dawg, it ain't yo fault. Ya got that bug. It's good though, I got ya". Playing on the that stupid idea that it's not their fault (when we all knew it was), just to keep them thinking it's out of their hands and coming back. Even The Game knew "it's a disease" was bullsh*t
Thanks, Justacon. While the first freedom robbed from us by our addictions -- the freedom to walk away -- is the most fundamental of all freedoms, we are nothing if not complicit. Addiction is a coping mechanism. We CHOOSE the addiction over the pain...
Thanks, Justacon. Today's technomedia cartel makes the Mexican cartels look like dime-bag dealers in high school bathrooms. They deal in fear and envy at digital scale. Still, we are nothing if not complicit in our own addictions.
Simply and well-stated, Brody. In what I call the Great Age of Addiction, accountability has been converted from a reward for a job well done to a personal threat.
As someone who's "been there, got a postcard" with addiction and recovery, I can definitely confirm: there is no disease. We all make our choices. Some of us, though, choose to find every possible way we can run from personal accountability and responsibility
I think you are on to something. Especially that the millions being spent to pretend to cure something are not making a difference. The numbers are going up, not down. And yet we keep spending. Because it is the new American way to solve problems - throw money at it and it will go away. Or pass a law. Wah la. Fixed.
Thank you for the kind support, JFLB. The addiction recovery industry is like any other grievance industry, just another flavor of social engineering: billions invested in the false god of quasi science with nothing to show for it but more of the same. Billions invested in those being paid not to understand...
I grew up around people whose job it was to get people addicted. Get 'em hooked. I've literally, more times than I can possibly count, remember hearing corner boys tell some random fiend things like "I know dawg, it ain't yo fault. Ya got that bug. It's good though, I got ya". Playing on the that stupid idea that it's not their fault (when we all knew it was), just to keep them thinking it's out of their hands and coming back. Even The Game knew "it's a disease" was bullsh*t
Thanks, Justacon. While the first freedom robbed from us by our addictions -- the freedom to walk away -- is the most fundamental of all freedoms, we are nothing if not complicit. Addiction is a coping mechanism. We CHOOSE the addiction over the pain...
Thanks, Justacon. Today's technomedia cartel makes the Mexican cartels look like dime-bag dealers in high school bathrooms. They deal in fear and envy at digital scale. Still, we are nothing if not complicit in our own addictions.