[responce and repose}

i put this up as a comment to a great friends post and felt it pertinant to put it up for my own record ----

original post - http://opalbracken.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-do-drugs-mean-to-me.html

Blogger Run for the Dawn said...

i find george carlins illumination on the pleasure/pain cycle to be a very interesting understanding (clicky below)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzmD9GEpdTw (from about 3:10)

watched that?

good.

pain becomes it's own reward,

it compartmentalises your experience into a cycle, it is the pain that governs the need for pleasure, not the need for dissolution or oblivion in and of itself,

it can be a seperate pain that drives your need for departure, but the pain of addiction locks in the need for a self replecating experience.

It's the same with legal addictions, a night out on the town follows the same form as a heroin user's cycle:
pain, seek, score, high.

Work all week for no immedaite physical or emotional reward, created desire to go out in town, need to dress up, organise with friends, get transport to the club, wait in line outside, finally get in, pay ludicrus amounts of money for small portions of simulant, realise the pub sucks, high ends, secondary need created (Let's go to the fuckin X! {where X is another shithole pub}), repeat previous 10 steps until too drunk to get in/lock out happens/purchase a 7/11 pie and stagger home.

these are self induced, mediated experiences that allow people to carthasise any number of emotions, and their physical stimuli reinforce the repetition of the cycle.

I suppose you can guess my general feeling about these behaviours, and I hate them for pretty much the same main reason I hate misogyny,

It's just so completely unoriginal and a spoon fed set of behaviours.

they create nothing,

and I'm tired of consuming without reciprocal creation.

P.s.

I really liked the trope about the ViewMaster, concise and eloquent.

August 2, 2010 9:51 AM