SmakRok - Intro; Up; Down; Around; and, Concluding remarks.
VU important to up/down.
The idea that culture is influenced by sound/words - novels, etc. tend to be more exploratory, more effusive, more considered. Yet in the words of VU are images of possibilities. RFTT - or more specifically, Laughner, is about 'the' life, where drugs are pivotal to existence - if I can't have drugs, is this a life worth living? Life is pain - addiction,drug seeking behaviours, etc. Again, the morally responsible addict? Certainly there is a space for the ethical addict, one who lives a life true to themselves, but with minimal effect/impact on others - but role of those affected? Is this purely the socail mores - should the onus be upon society for endangering the mothers, etc? Where is the social responsibility for the negative consequences - is this the actions of the individual, or society? Who should bear the responsibility for the social evils? Drug convictions = no jobs; lower socio-economic access; refusal of entry (e.g. USA); stigmatization; guilt by association; prejudice; peer pressures; reductive; minimizing of social circles; loss of privileges; awareness of hypocrisy; loss of motivation - why strive when the society is so set against you?
Lazyboy - marijuana vs viagra -> natural highs, but now more hydro ... why do people judge other people? why would you not give money to beggars - what are they going to do with it? decorate the shelter?
Then there is the role of alcohol/tobacco/caffeine <- the latter is possibly the most problematic, for it is so readily available ... what is ice rage except someone that has had too much coffee?
Then there are pharmaceuticals, the pills that Mother gives you CAN do a lot, or much! Yet they are the most regulated - in one sense, the medicalisation of knowledge = a cult of acceptance, where if you subscribe to the power of the dr, then you get drugged? The role of the placebo & self-belief? Hence, to be o/s of that is to be o/s of society & its mores ...
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