This is only growing! Why? When we have everything! Or do we?? Do we believe that this is just the way things have to be? Can you really answer these question for yourself?
Now back to the intoxication and the different types of intoxication. What is intoxication? Well for most people its alcohol, drugs, tobacco, caffeine. But check this out for a deeper concept, have you ever considered that shopping could be an addiction? What about eating food? Sex life is that an addiction?
Lets look up what the word addiction means in the dictionary
Ad-dic-tion n
1. A state of physiological or psychological dependence on a drug liable to have damaging effect.
2. Great interest in something to which a lot of time is devoted.
Now check out some of the research into human emotion and how some of the recent studies show that the peptides produce in the brain acts like a drug similar to morphine.
Understanding Human
by James V. McConnell - Psychology - 1986 - 11 pages
opioid peptides. And when you learn how these natural analgesics work, ...
Wei and Horace Loh suggests that the enkephalins are as addictive as morphine. .
Brain opioid peptide systems are known to play an important role in motivation, emotion, attachment behaviour, the response to stress and pain, and the control of food intake.
Now taking all this into account if the peptides created by our brains is as addictive as morphine, then the simple feeling of going shopping can be an addictive drug . In my opinion as the dictionary second terminology states: Great interest in something to which a lot of time is devoted. If we are meditating on something a lot and cant stop thinking about that thing then it is an addiction. So with a new definition on addiction, now the question is what are you addicted to?
We are all addicted, whether it be watching movies, television, eating, shopping, drugs, coffee, relationships or a mixer of all of the above. Whatever addiction we are absorb in,
its main purpose is to dull your mind and to forget those bigger question that no one seems to be able to answer. I believe the metaphor is sticking your head in the sand, deep down you know these question need an answer. And it’s the leaders responsibility to provide this knowledge to its people, instead they dodge the answer and reply “don’t bother about it just enjoy life”.As the saying goes “everything” in moderation - what on earth does that mean anyway? . So on Monday I’ll have a bit of alcohol! on Tuesday I’ll have a little bit of cocaine! And on Wednesday I’ll sleep with a couple of women. I think you get the point, the emphasis is not on moderation, but on everything.
In a society that’s about making more money the focus is on “more” not the “money” its about having many things, just have a bit of this and bit of that! until there’s a lot.
Mod-er-a-tion (n)
1. the state in which something remains moderate rather than becoming extreme or excessive
2. the limiting, controlling, or restricting of something so that it becomes or remains moderate.
So you may be moderate with one particular thing but add all those things up and you will see - we live in extreme states of juggling one thing after another. And as the dictionary term states extreme and excessive is not moderation.
Let’s be honest, is the society we are living in! really based on moderation? Just look around and you will find the answer is “NO”. Everything we do is getting to be from one extreme to another. As the saying goes, “give them an inch and they’ll take it a mile”. How do we find a happy medium – is it even possible. Well for starters there are certain things we need to steer clear of – none of this rubbish about moderation. Just because you can doesn’t always mean you should! Take drinking for example. Everyone knows exactly where this pastime takes you. Let’s address why we “need” alcohol in the first place. Social lubricant anyone? Make men brave, make women loose.
Lets be real do you really believe that the current society is a moderate one? Look around - are we living moderately according to the dictionary terms. Or have we pulled the wool over our eye’s with this new-age mumbo jumbo saying “everything in moderation”.
Humans with all the other living species and ultimately the earth herself is suffering, this is all due to a lack of knowledge from an authorise source.
My point to all this, is not to be negative or to focus on the “negative” but to explain some of the thought processes my mind went through. Which ultimately lead me to the destructive cycle of intoxication, whatever intensity and type of intoxication we may have. That is not important, the fact-is an addiction is an addiction, and when we become reliant on something with a temporary and destructive nature that is also outside ourselves. We become trap in a cycle of forgetfulness, “you know mate! You think too much! Just relax and have a beer! It will take all your problems away”. So they think!
Think about it, does this hold some truth? Just look around and ask yourself, “What would happen if ALL forms of intoxication were just taken away”, How do you think people would cope with the reality of modern times. “No real answers” just speculative thought on reality. “It could be this”? “It could be that”??? “No authority”! We have an authority on every subject matter accept for the big questions.
How would people cope! the answer is in fact sheets like the web site before on depression, and please do some research on alcohol and drug abuse, on crime, suicide. You will see it getting worse not better, check out some of these web sites for yourself:
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/facts/2006/facts_and_figures_2006.pdf
http://www.marininstitute.org/Youth/alcohol_youth.htm
http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/phe/soduia06/soduia06-c01.pdf
ttp://www.suicidology.org/associations/1045/files/2004datapgv1.pdf
http://www.livingisforeveryone.com.au/files/stats/lifestats240406.pdf
You will find trends of ups and downs, some years better then others. If you really do your research into it, you can see according to how well the society is doing in terms of finance. Some of the problems also follow suit, but some like violent crimes are on the increase. Even then! compared to the sixties to now you can see “slowly” things are getting worse. Why???
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