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May 07, 2011
Huxley.
Many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. The craving for ethyl alcohol and the opiates has been stronger, in these millions, than the love of God, of home, of children; even of life.... Why should such multitudes of men and women be so ready to sacrifice themselves for a cause so utterly hopeless and in ways so painful and so profoundly humiliating?
--Aldous Huxley, "Drugs That Shape Men's Minds", The Saturday Evening Post, October 18, 1958
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at May 7, 2011 11:59 PM
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Why?
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Because it works.
People are so hurting that they want the altered state to stop the pain.
Posted by: Moe Levine at May 7, 2011 01:44 AM
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