Why do have to get SO wasted?

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The Indians high in the Andes chew the coca leaf for 8,000 years and are satisfied with its mild stimulating properties. No thanks; we want powerful cocaine. The Hmong elder gently puffes at his opium in the evening, but we want black tar heroin. In Lebanon, a cab driver smokes mild hashish from his waterpipe, but we genetically design strains of "green bud" that produce instant terrifying paranoia...

Why do we have to get so BLASTED out of our skulls? Modern problems deserves powerful analgesics? What is it?

― andy, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha this is the most appropriately titled thread evar

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

People want to get as far away from responsibility as possible. That's the best I can come up with.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

bbbut yr still responsible for things done drunk.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The more potent a drug is, the less marketing you have to do for it. Its reputation will speak for itself.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

modern times = theatre of the absurd = mind-boggles attempting to comprehend = fire it up mang

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

An awesome question, Andy. Unfortunately I have no idea how to answer it!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

no one understands maintaining anymore.
I blame Guinness (the book, not the drink).

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

bbbut yr still responsible for things done drunk.

People want to avoid reality for whatever reason. They don't want to deal with it. I.E. They don't want the responsibility of cousciousness. Yes, they're still accountable, but they can't feel it, and that's good enough for them.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

(I realize I'm making sweeping generalizations.)

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

While you're sweeping, would you mind getting the front hallway?

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Do I look like your maid? ; )

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

because we think too much and feel bad and getting wasted makes us feel better/feel less/feel ok. i'm not sure that it's a new phenomenon.

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.tequilamescal.com/images/pul1.jpg

"Pulque is a milky, slightly foamy and somewhat viscous beverage made by fermenting (not distilling) the fresh sap of certain types of Maguey. It has a somewhat heavy flavour, resembling sour milk, but it is much esteemed by the natives on. account of its cooling, and according to them wholesome and nutritious, properties."

― andy, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Why? Because we like it. M-O-U-S-E.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

other cultures just dont know how to party man!

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, I think one definite undercurrent that's incubated in capitalist/western civilization is a more!-bigger!-faster!-louder! aggressive ambition that might sorta push modern western civilizationers to go buck wild in the getting of fucked up.

ha ha luna wins

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

And to some degree, where these substances are illegal, small quantities with intenser properties are favored, to reduce the risk of someone finding your stash. (AKA the "binge-drinking student" theory.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

it was all those bugs bunny cartoons when bugs would roll up big fat 'tobacco' cigars. they got into my head at an early age

― kephm, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is sooo gonna get drunkenly resurrected in a moment of excess.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure how relevant this is, but Americans drank twice as much per capita 150 years ago.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i suppose it's because we've moved onto bigger and better substances.

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

such as TV

― Chuck D (Oops), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i think nicka be right. we are all a bunch of hedonistic gluttons who take pride in our excessive levels of consumption (well i do). we (i) are (am) never content to just enjoy something, but must over do it to the point of nihilistic, life endangering levels. partyhardcorenofearjustdoitahhfuckit¡ etc.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Alright now we say bye bye old world
Gotta help the new world
Oh bye bye
I say bye bye bye bye old world

― kephm, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

to deal with shit duh. I mean I don't think Andean potato farmers have to deal with things like mission statements and bitch-ass insurance companies

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

are you kidding? they only have to deal with poverty and lack of food.
&plenty of them are blasted i.

i disagree with this thread. people have been getting f*cked up for ages. and people always will

― kephm, Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

^ & plenty of them are blasted ia m sure

― kephm, Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Housing contract isn't quite a mission statement, but it was an excuse....

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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