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predisposition towards addictive tendencies is reflective of an individual’s attempt to use illicit substances to try to establish a kind of mental equilibrium to address the body’s natural inability to maintain a natural psychological equilibrium.
         They’re diagnosed with anxiety, and depression, and manic-depression, and bipolar disorder resulting from post-traumatic stress because their parents used to hit them or because they were raped.
         And maybe that’s true for some people.
         But a little bit of stress is natural.
         There are whole parts of our genetic code that have been honed by thousands of years of evolution to deal with stress and anxiety and trauma.
         For thousands of years of human evolution , life has been merciless and unforgiving.
         The wolf has always been at the door.
         A change in the weather and the crops fail and everyone starves.
         Eat and you become hungry again.
         Sleep and you become tired again.
         Enough is never enough.
         Contentment is temporary and equilibrium is illusory.
         Sleep, health and wealth must be disturbed to be appreciated.
         Maybe drugs and alcohol and caffeine and nicotine are just convenient shortcuts.
         Maybe some people just like to get high.
         Have you ever done drugs?
         I’ve done my fair share.
         Have you ever drank enough that the sound of everything is dull?
         Until you’re numb.
         Until there’s a warm, soft, forcefield between you and everything around you?
         Like you’re the center of everything.
         Maybe it’s not the addict’s fault.
         Society exerts a continual pressure upon people to live up to its expectations, but it’s not that people have changed.   The rules have changes.   Society’s expectations have changed.   With the exponential advances in our artificial technologies, obtaining employment requires a steadily increasingly complicated set of skills.
         Without a high-school diploma, you’re destined to live a life scratching out a living on minimum wage.   Or hustling to get what you need to survive.
         Living under the radar.
         Living in fear.
         We’ve outsmarted ourselves.
         People are worried that we’re going to accidentally ruin the planet.
         They’re worried about recycling and global warming.
         I think that’s stupid.
         Recycling is a myth.
         98% of America’s waste stream is commercial and industrial waste.
         And there are, like, around 300,000,000 people living in America.
         So even if you live a completely waste free lifestyle, it’s only going to decrease th e waste stream by one-three-millionth of two-percent.
         Think about that next time you’re washing out a tuna fish can.
         Or carrying around a bottle until you can find a recycling kiosk.
         It’s all just self-indulgent bullshit.
         The only reason to recycle is if it makes you feel better.
         The only time that recycling is going to make a difference is when it’s too late.
         When we’ve finally used up all of the available resources.
         T he landfills will become goldmines.
         People will be fighting for the right to dig up everything anyone has ever thrown away to facilitate humanity’s last ditch attempt at continuing its existence as one of mother nature’s failed experiments.
         Global warming?
         How self-centered of humanity to believe that we’re a danger to the planet.
         Planetary phenomena are larger than humanity.
         Maybe our behavior just happened to coincide with larger astronomical events.   Maybe the sun is getting hotter.
         But maybe this time we’ve managed to screw things up so badly that we threw things permanently out of equilibrium.
         Maybe the surface of the planet will