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Kana -> RE: ADDICTS (12/18/2013 2:50:55 PM)
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If addicts bear no responsibility for their condition,
But they do. If nothing else, they originally picked up despite all sorts of social conditioning to the contrary. Besides, see my comments re personality and how it ties into addiction. We may not be responsible for the external conditions surrounding us,but we are all, each and every human, responsible for how we react. We are who we make ourselves to be
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as suggested in the foolish TEDx we started from, and they have no free will with which to choose to alter the path they find themselves on,
But they obviously do. The millions of documented recoveries bear testament to that fact. I can see an argument that prior to being exposed to treatment or the concept thereof an addict may not bear responsibility (Which in this day and age,where everyone has heard of rehab, is damn near impossible.) but once exposed to the fact that they can recover, the responsibility is on them.
I can say that in the many years and thousands of people I saw walk through the doors, I have, on rare occasion, encountered someone who was just to damaged to recover,but those were very few and far between. I should also mention that I can say that only in hindsight simply because I've seen equally destroyed people recover.
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AND the coercive efforts of the war on drugs are an impossible failure (which they are),
Yep. The WOD is the abject failure of the last 50 years.
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then what, exactly, are we left with?
Which is one of the points of this thread.
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Pure nannyism?
Already occurs. We call em prison guards.Or,when I was in the joint, screws
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And if that is it, then by whom exactly?
The Department of Corrections. What? You want to call it anything else when we incarcerate (and thus control) millions of Americans nationwide
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After all, the most addictive drug of all for our species, is power. Who forces the nannies into perpetual rehab?
Consider this-the last polls showed something like 70% of Americans favor legalizing pot.
Why hasn't it happened?
Just cruised through, especially when one considers the tax benefits desperately needed by near bankrupt states.
The answer is simple. Because the powers that be, the criminal justice system, has so many billions of dollars and jobs,agencies and infrastructure, foreign policy manifestations, funding of illegal US operations (Can we, in unison, all say Contras puuuullllleeeeze), defense ramifications that, as you just stated, it's almost impossible to wean the nannies from the power.
The WOD has led to
-The destabilization of our closest neighbor, with whom we share an open border
-Almost destroyed Colombia,who had their Supreme Court assaulted and judges slaughtered
-Supporting despicable regimes across South America as well as establishing CIA sponsored and led torture training centers in which thousands of peasants were slaughtered
-Creating funding for revolutionary groups in SA-see the FARC/NARC connection
-Opium grown in Afghanistan funds the Taliban
-Currently helps fund fundamentalism in Northern Africa
-empowered and funded gangs nationwide, the Crips and Bloods, being the most famous
And I'm just getting started. The list goes on forever.
It's also been the excuse for...deep breath time here...
-incarcerating vast tracts of the Black population
-creating ghettos and war zones of most American cities
-Asset forfeiture laws
-Internal checkpoints
-Illegal wiretapping
-A massive expansion of the criminal industrial complex to the point where not to far down the road it's going to threaten state budgets
-Police swat teams armed like Navy Seal squads
Basically, there's not a single constitutional liberty that hasn't been weakened by the WOD...which is the real truth of the WOD.
It's an excuse to seize power, strip freedoms, pour government money into projects, keep a population in check with fear, oppress and repress minorities, and in general trample the rights of what was once a free citizenry underfoot.
The WOD is the single greatest travesty of post WW2 American policy.
50years. Millions of lives ruined. Countless trillions spent. More lost in opportunity cost from taxes never gained.
And drugs are cheaper,more plentiful and more available than ever. And not just the old drugs,new designer drugs too.
Fuck, it's a Sisyphean task, like fighting Hydra-cut one arm off and a hundred more take it's place.
But maybe we shouldn't call it a war, because as The Wire put it so succinctly, "Wars end."
ETA
End rant.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled channels
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