Drugs are defined as substances that change the chemical function of a body, whether that be a aspirin or an acid tab.
In this context I am going to introduce the notion of entertainment as a drug.
I was drugged my entire life. Back in grade school I was drugged. School would be class all day, get on trouble for talking in class, sit up straight and do your work. There was 15 minutes for recess and 45 minutes for lunch.
After school we would go home. There were video games, there were children's TV shows.
These became our lives. On our breaks at grade school, we would emulate characters from tv and games to achieve happiness and social acceptance. This was our drug. We would play sports in the playground, and name ourselves after famous athletes. Kind of like cosplay....
As we got older and had more independence, we kept on taking these drugs. We became skaters. No one was that good, but the most athletic of us was thought of fondly when playing Tony Hawk on the PlayStation. We would play this game, talk about it at school, talk about doing an ollie and then try and do this on the weekend. Not every weekend. And the one who could make it look good made us feel like we got a good hit of that drug. We were cool. Pur exposure to recreation when not confined to school told us this was how to be.
We were shit. It was physical exertion. We got hot and tired. We scraped our knees.
We loved it. We were drugged. See: Pavlov's Dogs
We would go to school. Social status was not based upon anything resembling social prowess. It was what TV show you related to (not the one that resembled you, or that you aspired to be, just the one you watched). There was the kids who liked WWE. There was the kids who liked FIFA. There were the kids who liked makeup.
None of this was life. All of this was an escape from reality. We were heavy drug users. Every single day. Trying to get that hit to escape reality. Doing lines of Renaldo and Brittney hair at recess and lunch. Rolling up fat logs of Kobe Bryant. Talking about the adventures of Angela Anaconda and Johnny Avati. Adventures we did not have. But if we related to them, we were granted the right to live vicariously through them.
Then middle school and high school.
Much the same with more emphasis on appearance. Towards the end based upon aspirations and grades.
Then after school. We were living vicariously through hip hop and punk rock. The same drug, just a different delivery method. Our whole means of measuring social value was based upon how closely you could pretend you were from pop culture. Nothing was based upon individual merit. No one was real. I remember cigarettes. I remember weed. I remember "The Fast and the Furious". I remember we were not these things. But anyone who brought to our attention this fact was an uncool loser.
But the fact stands. We were not these things. We were at school all day. We had a few hours in the afternoon and then it was dinner and sleep. Some weekends we would do stuff. I did not go to a local high school. There was no one around the block.
And on these weekends we tried to emulate characters and speech and mannerisms from the movies.
At this time in our lives it was teen movies. College comedies. Coming or age dramas. Beautiful people wearing revealing clothing. There was maybe one person in my grade that good looking. One person everyone was drawn to because their beauty told us they were nice.
Everyone else acted that this was them. They had no identity. They coopted one from the movies. This was not any kf us. No one had that degree of sex appeal. No one had that friendly self confidence. Confidence came from assuring yourself you were cooler than someone else. It was brutal.
We were getting ready to enter the world. We were getting an understanding of how awesome life was about to become. How cool college would be. We were preparing ourselves based upon what was shown to us.
And then we went to college. And it was lame. The losers were partying because it was socially awkward to be that friendly with people you didn't know. No one had confidence to show themselves because there wasn't an established pecking order. It went back to reinforce that confidence did not come from nice people. It came from being confident to place yourself above others.
Everyone was weird and awkward. Parties were super weird putting yourself out there as if to say "Hey I need friends." Peoole were super defensive, they had ingrained character traits from years of school yard social competitions. They were often always on guard.
Think back to what has become a part of their personality and is now reflected in their day to day interactions from ingrained conditioning.
Now think about how fake we are and the drugs we use to delude ourselves and disassociate from reality.
Think about how we conform to teen movies and music videos to fit in.
Think about where this conformity places us.
It places us on the human meat market production line. We are a commodity. We are slaves.
See: institutionalization.
Now where are we today?
Taking photos for instagram of us at cafes and bars and beaches. Going to music festivals.
Look at everyone dancing....
Case in point
Makes for great still photos. Makes for great delusion. This is who we are. This is what we allowed ourselves to be.
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Using this as our base model, we can expand upon this all day for every application.
So using the premise that we are institutionalized to function in a society that requires institutionalization, and that reality for many people is a dissociative state where they constantly ply themselves with "drugs" such as coffee and cake at a cafe wearing an adidas shirt for instagram we can analyse the:
*Police The police refer to themselves as the thin blue line between anarchy and civil order. They have an understanding of criminology. Criminology is the study of factors leading to crime and "anti social behaviour". They are trained to detect all kinds of crime, even political crimes, as they must be aware of when people are trying to corrupt them. Corruption includes impure thoughts such as sympathising with a grocery store theif. If everyone was thieving from grocery stores there would be a collapse in society, again, police are that "thin blue line".
So knowing this, and they are trained to have an awareness of factors influencing behavior and moral reasoning, what is the threat of kids skateboarding in a park that needs to be squashed as fast as possible?
Well if kids are playing Spiderman they grow out of it, or change themselves to become cool and gain social capital.
But what about skateboarding? People driving home from work see some people in their 20s skateboarding and think that looks fun. That looks cool. That looks appealing to the opposite sex. This is a threat to good social order. This is why skaters need to be squashed. You aren't allowed to get the idea that you are living in an office prison and your life is "controlled" and wasted to keep you from rocking the boat. It's an invisible prison and you are brainwashed in to being like a dumb animal motivated to succeed 9-5 to buy an awesome car to sit in for the traffic jam on the way home.
Showing people freedom is a threat to that thin blue line.
Ever wonder why we grow up being told skaters and surfers are losers going no where? To keep you in prison is why. To pay your taxes. To make your boss rich. Your life is worth a holiday to him. An expensive holiday in a private yacht. These guys are ruthless. So ruthless the police defend the thin blue line persecuting skaters.
*Economics This is the best economic system. Period.
False. This is the economic system most compatible with our enforced institutionalization.
