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bratbag | 1 year ago

Hypothesis: The better you understand the world, the more likely you are to need an occasional drink.

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ziggyzecat|1 year ago

addition to hypothesis:

and that need grows exponentially with your understanding of the world until a certain point.

That need can be reduced to a healthy "Mom said everything is fine in moderate amounts" once you choose to not live by conflicting standards, or rather: when you choose to not support implicitly AND explicitly conflicting causes ( many on the left, finboys & fingirls, law enforcement, ... but unemployed who don't work on themselves or their environment as well )

jajko|1 year ago

Not really, you need a coping mechanism with all the crap and stupidity across society, and how powerless truth and correct moral behavior can be.

Alcohol is one of the worst ones, you just blunt yourself while still realizing all failures, just temporarily a bit downtuned, next morning back to misery. No solution or even improvement is happening, just basically giving up (or a bit of complaining which is just group psychological therapy).

Sports, meditation, maybe even occasional psychedelics steered in right direction, active vacations, good food, good sleep. Life is much easier in such mode.

AbstractH24|1 year ago

So you are saying “psychedelics good coping mechanism, alcohol bad”?

That is California sobriety at a level I’ve never seen before.