WE'RE ALL JUNKIES

We're all junkies of one sort or another and the powers that be create our addictions as an easy way to control the population. If we're focused on our addiction we won't be looking at or caring what our government and the people that control it are doing. It makes it so much easier for them if we don't have a clue what they're doing, especially if it's something detrimental to our lives (which is everything they do). When the word addiction is used people as a rule automatically think of drugs, but that's not the case. In reality addiction is an obsession gone to the next level. Anyone can become addicted to anything at any time, the only requirement of an addiction is that it addresses our personal happiness issues. An addiction can be as harmless as American Idol or as deadly as Methamphetamine or Heroin, it all depends on the individual. The easiest way to identify an addiction is to answer one simple question, does it create an emotional response? Do you get giddy in anticipation of your "fix?" Does just the thought of your "drug" elevate or change your mood? Are you let down or do you become depressed or even angry when you're deprived of your "fix?" If you can answer yes to these questions, you're an addict, even if you're only talking about Lucky Charms cereal. Granted that might not be as dangerous as meth unless it becomes a serious health issue, but every addiction has the potential to be deadly no matter how innocuous it is. Our minds and bodies need balance in all things and any obsession upsets that balance. It's not long before our lower brain picks up our obsession to placate its instinct to alter its state of consciousness. Ultimately it's our lower brain that discards or elevates the obsession to addiction status. If discarded we lose that obsession like a bad habit and move on to the next thing in our path. That's why I say there's no such thing as a gateway drug, we only settle on the thing that thing that addresses our individual need. If there is a gateway drug, my money'd be on tobacco simply because it's generally the first truly addictive substance we injest and the most readily available.

Addiction is the way to control a population, whether it be food, street drugs, prescription drugs, boats, cars, sports, TV, video games, money, sex, power anything that we fixate on is an addiction of sorts and it's all used against us for a variety of reasons at many levels. As a former drug dealer I've seen this first hand, it's amazing how easy it is to control people with drugs. The first and foremost reason is, if we're focused on our own obsessions or addictions we won't be paying any attention to what's going on around us in the world. This allows entities like our government and it's handlers to spread the wealth to their little ultra-wealthy community while at the same time robbing it from ours the taxpayer, usually before the money's even made keeping us hard at work living the "American Dream" of having "things," things we're told we need to have by the TV because it's part of "the dream." The ones that don't succumb to that dream usually end up in some type of sub/counter culture that succumbs to something else, usually drugs, but in our day and age there are many more things to obsess over or become addicted to than in the past and it's more readily available thanks to the internet.



I've witnessed everything I just spoke about first hand. My father was addicted to "things," hunting and fishing "things." Though he didn't do much of either he was a sucker for the newest fishing lure or rod. As a child whenever he gave me a birthday or Christmas present it was usually something he wanted, nothing I cared about. He even went so far as to steal money from a child (me) to get an outboard motor for his boat and beat me for finding out about it. The emotional response my dad's addictions caused were broadcast in neon for everyone to see. The usually taciturn prick my dad was would actually be human on the day of a hunt and conquest, whether figurative or actual. A figurative hunt was the day he was going to buy a new fishing lure, fishing pole, deer rifle, scope etc... Once the conquest (purchase) was made it was usually looked at, shelved, forgotten and he was a prick again. He had dozens of fishing poles, reels, creels, an overflowing tacklebox and very rarely used any of it, the same with his hunting gear. We had a boat that sat out in our back yard because he was too busy watching the opiate of the ignorant, TV to do anything with it except a couple times a year and heaven forbid anyone touch his boat or anything else in his arsenal of junk.

"Things" weren't my dad's only addictions, he was a sucker for sports on TV. It didn't matter what it was he forced the whole family to be assaulted by it or leave the house "my house, my rules, my TV, if you don't like it leave," was his answer to any comment made about the constant barrage of crap like Big 20 Bowling, golf, professional wrestling and anything else that you could get jumping up and down mad at, but never play in your life. Then later on in life he became addicted to, of all things, Dristan Cold Medicine after he gave up smoking. Can't expect much more from the idiot he was.

My form of rebellion and the antithesis to his thesis was to run, not walk to Harley Davidson motorcycles, methamphetamine and marijuana and live in that counter-culture for 25 years. All a shining example of what was said earlier in this post. For that entire time I could've cared less who was president or about anything else except my own little drug-induced world. Now that I can see first hand what my and so many millions of other's apathy has allowed I'm pissed. Sobriety comes with a price, responsibility, we've all been irresponsible junkies for way too long, generations too long, now the wolves rule the roost and we're paying "the price we pay for the lives we led" and footing the bill for the lives of the crooks we allowed to gain power. See ya!