8/18/18 - “Another Terrible Lie" As you might have noticed by now, if you have been reading my other “thoughts”, I have something of a problem with ideology. I like to use my own culture’s ideology as an example of why the thing itself is a destructive force. Let me take another example for you: The ideology in addiction counseling, and why it is (obviously) ineffective and cruel. I have been to an in-patient rehab one time (Other than the time I escaped after one day and hitchhiked to my friend’s college), and it was one of the more terrifying experiences I’ve had in my life. This was a particularly hard-core rehab, but the fundamental ideology in-play remains the same. First let me say, everything they teach you is based on reality, which is basic strategy when maintaining an organization’s integrity. Some of the ideas I was taught had redeeming value, but I want to illustrate why their use is fundamentally a lie. It isn’t just that the rehab is making ludicrous amounts of money at the expense of their victims, it’s the basic premise of their “recovery concept” - The problem that you are experiencing with an inability to control habits is a disease, a mental illness, and resides in you. YOU need to defeat YOURSELF, and stop blaming everyone else for the problem that YOU created. There’s nothing addiction counselors hate more than my “external locus of control”. I had to fight my way out of this rehab, tooth and nail, and I did it by carefully lying to the liars. Basically, I found the truth in the things that they taught in their classes, and displayed my understanding, but lying that I agreed that I needed to stop using drugs. There may be universal truths about psychology that anyone can reflect upon, and make an argument against drug use as an ultimate solution. The trick of it is, that I don’t. I regard them as tools. A means to an end. It isn’t an eccentric fetish with me, it is a habit that helps me gain ground in life. The only reason that drug use hinders a person like me, is that other people are forbidding it. My take on addictions is this: People overuse drugs, and break the law to pleasure theirselves, because their environment, situations, relationships and futures are failing to keep them happy. People aren’t well because the world is not well, and if you ARE doing well, it is always that something evil is motivating you. Money and “The Game”, with most people. The exception is that you may have found a higher purpose, but this usually isn’t true, especially at a young age. I’m happy right now for this reason, but I will readily admit that I am motivated by evils, the difference between myself and common folk being that I treat those evils as trivial. Many happy people take their evil motivations VERY seriously, and have no real higher purpose. (So, I postulate, addicts tend to be better people than your typical, money-hungry swine.) Happiness, therefore, is often a mental illness, that makes you look good, and keeps you out of places like rehab. And, of course, happy people who are seeking money and playing the game, tend to cause problems for others, in their maniacal pursuit of “happiness”. The American way is a bestial war, at best. A very cut-throat environment, making it very difficult to get along with others and be genuinely happy. Nice people, though many would refuse to take the drugs necessary to give theirselves peace of mind (Committing suicide much of the time, instead), are the people who both need and deserve good drugs. That’s right, if you are a bad person, I don’t want you to have the good shit. They love to call us junkies, and I retort that they are disgruntled about their unworthiness to get high. Back to “the problem” - Evil people are the problem, and whenever we find a solution to them, they will try to take it from us. God made drugs for His beloved children to find peace and enlightenment, to take refuge from the world in the sanctuary of their minds. Drugs have resolved many problems for me, and never given me anything that I deemed was very much negative. Addiction? Not a big deal. Reason supersedes addiction, as long as the user has goodwill toward their self. As long as your substance use does you more good than harm, there’s no reason to regard your love of it as an “addiction”. It will kill you? Nope. It’s not like I’m injecting heroin (I have never injected any drug, and see no reason to do so). People that die from overdoses have not been educated properly, which is entirely the fault of law enforcement and ideology. No one informs anyone on how to safely use drugs because it’s illegal, and for “the losers”. No one will respect your personal decision to use drugs, so they don’t care if you end up hurting yourself. Given that it is forbidden to use drugs, when you finally manage to get your hands on something, you might feel compelled to go all out, after experiencing true relief for the first time. We tend to get excited about things when we are young, or when they are new to us. It’s not surprising, therefore, that people get addicted to euphorigens, and sometimes overdose. Another thing to note is the nature of “street” drugs. The isolated compounds most popular, such as heroin and cocaine, are much more dangerous than their whole sources, and are likely very dirty. If drugs were legal, they could be carefully controlled, and distributed in very safe forms. My favorite drug was always my prescription amphetamine, because it was safe and effective, and had nothing but the pure substance in it. Good, clean fun. Powerful medicine for working, thinking, and basically, living a successful life. Look at how many alcoholics the rehabs get! They all want a way to control their personal happiness. But, think of how fat and dysfunctional alcohol makes you! While many alcoholics would outright reject the notion that they need reasonable doses of “speed” to make things work for them, I am sure that it could go a long way in curing their alcoholism. Sadly, people are taking that vital medicine from one another. The alcoholic’s cure is not just to stop drinking alcohol and find a higher power. They all knew that they needed medicine, and I can not, honestly, disagree with that. But, alcohol is a sloppy, ineffective, garbage chemical, and it was some people’s only option. In short, drugs can save lives. They would not take a single soul, if they were only honored for their true intent. People are going to go out and find their drug of choice regardless of your pathetic laws, and punishing them for it is cruel and pointless. It’s impossible to convince anyone that something isn’t true, when they know at a subconscious level, that it is. Rehabs are failing precisely because they are based on lies. It is NOT the patient’s fault that they relapse, over an over, it’s yours. That’s right, I’m blaming the deaths on you. You were not there for anyone, and I want there to be repercussions for your severe failures. Like Trent Reznor said in “Pretty Hate Machine”, what a terrible lie! |