I'm gonna work on that.
Today I'd like to get on a serious note and talk about the underbelly of the society we live in. I'm not talking about you potheads, you are the least of anyone's concern. Personally, I think if the government would just legalize and regulate it, they'd make way more money than they do with their bullshit "War on Drugs". Don't even get me started on that. It's an evil cycle of arrests and redistribution to make more money. It's a literal opiate for the masses. They keep you high and complacent, safe in your illusion of control. They let you feel confident that they don't know what you're doing. Psh. They provide the drugs then wait for you to fuck up so they can bust you. Then they take your money through the court systems and wait for you to fuck up again so they can continue in their money hungry cycle. Make no mistake, they don't care if you get your shit together or not. They just want your fucking money. In fact, if you don't get your shit together, they will make more money off of you because they can keep you in the system. Sure, you might get thrown in jail for awhile, and you would think that would cost them money. Not really. You're a tax write off. They don't pay for that shit, you, the taxpayer, does.
Anyway.
Drug users are getting younger and younger as the access to them gets easier and easier. Things have gone from kids experimenting with pot in their parents basement to 14 year olds smoking foilies in their bathroom. 19 year olds driving to the ghetto to score heroin. 17 year olds staying up for three days blowing lines. Where do you draw the line? When did this transition start? What happened to being young? Used to be you'd sneak your boyfriend in through the bedroom window so you could make out. Now you're sneaking them in so you can get high and fuck. Helloooo teen pregnancy. As much as I love the concept of peace and free love and all that good stuff... I honestly think the hippie generation kind of fucked it up. Before you jump down my throat, just think about it. Since the revolution there have been so many more children born without both parents. Divorce rates have climbed to ridiculous levels. In fact, more people are divorced than are married anymore. Now go into that a little further. Before this "free love" concept, people (usually) waited till marriage to have sex. People stayed married. They were a generation that worked through the bullshit and (again, usually) grew to respect and love each other through the years because they WORKED AT IT. They didn't run away at the first sign of a problem. Did you know that if you live together before you're married you're more likely to get divorced than if you waited till after you said "I do"? Interesting statistic. We were meant to be raised by more than one person, whether that's a mother and father, two fathers, two mothers, or an entire village. (Look at the Native Americans... they were doing just fine before the white man came in and fucked everything up.) In my observations, kids who come from broken homes are the ones that have the most issues. Girls have daddy issues, boys have mommy issues. There's always abandonment issues. Or even if both parents are there half the time one of them is an asshole or some kind of addict. And those holes have to be filled somehow... And why would you want to feel the pain when you can pop that Xanax and become numb to it all? The days of Leave it to Beaver have passed. And not in a slow progression of time. We blinked and they were gone.
Now aside from the familial issues, there's also this concept of instant gratification. Especially in America. We want it, we want it now. Cell phones, computers, fast food, Walmart, video games, microwaves... The list goes on and on. We push a button and there it is. We are not being taught how to entertain ourselves in healthy ways! Why do so many kids get diagnosed with ADD? Because they were babysat by the t.v. and started playing XBOX by age 5. When I was a kid, and keep in mind this was only 15-20 years ago, I read. I played pretend. I built forts in the back yard. I rode my bike till the street lights came on. And when I complained to my mom that I got bored? She made me do writing exercises. Made me practice math problems. We had arts and crafts time. There was an entire box in our closet full of art supplies from the time I was 3 or 4 up until my teenage years. I didn't have a cell phone till I was 16, and then it was just for emergencies while I was driving. Nowadays, if we don't get it instantly it's not good enough. People can't even take the time to get off their fucking cell phones to have a 10 second interaction with the cashier. (This is particularly irksome to me, as I've been a cashier my whole working life.) Facebook "connects" us with people but it also creates distance. We don't have to have real human interaction, we can "chat" instead.
All of this instant gratification alters our perception of reality. Drugs give us that instant gratification. Had a bad day? Get high. Had a good day? Get high. Someone broke up with you? Get high. Got in a fight with your parents? Get high. Got in a car wreck? Get high. All it takes is a few minutes and suddenly you're feeling better. When something bad happens, we aren't truly dealing with it. Nobody wants to deal with shit anymore. Well, guess what... that's a natural part of life. There's a reason there are 5 stages to grief. It's not supposed to be one step. If you don't deal with it, it sinks down into your soul and you carry it around for the rest of your life. Eventually that weight gets so heavy that it drags you down and you can't figure why you're sad all the time. Oh, you're sad? There's a pill for that.
I could go on with this, but I need to dye my hair and clean my house. I will resume this tirade at a later date.
USE YOUR THINK BOX!
STOP BEING COMPLACENT!
THIS SOCIETY IS FUCKED AND WE'RE JUST LETTING IT HAPPEN!
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