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web-journal

[sasstricbypass]

“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ‘70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”

— Johann Hari, Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction? (via beemill)

[giada-rose]

#folktaleweek Day 3: Path

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

everyone on here right now apparently: thank god the u.s. government doesn’t collect my data like china

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

it would be extremely fucked up if the u.s. government had anyone censored on social media for political reasons or used our personal information for profit, anyway back to posting on facebook

[heavensghost]

Harry Styles - falling

Original painting by Andrew Wyeth

[prettyvixenavenue]

[floweryscorpio-deactivated20200]

I started this year

[noahkalina]

20181017

[swishersposts]

artists fuck better because we turn sex into art, masterpieces, mattresses become canvases where we can paint our love to someone with bodies.

[zsnes]

its like, impossible to come up with anything funnier than the experience of seeing this post

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

pharoahs fuck better because they ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh put the pussy in a scarmophogoghs

[cheaphalloweencostume]

me: I should do laundry

my brain: you should die

me: touché

[elftwink]

literally cannot stop thinking about that article talking about how crows are starting to use tools and pass down that knowledge and someone said they were entering the stone age. the stone age. bro. imagine when we entered the stone age there was just some other species already having built their shit looking at us going like “oh fuck humans are using sticks for stuff and teaching their kids how to do that haha cool”. this is the premise of a sci-fi novel. i can’t even think about it without feeling like personally responsible for the development of crows on a species level over the next several thousand years

[angelictrauma]

im hot

H ard to love O bnoxious T errible

[waronidiocy]

If Dr. Seuss Books Were Titled According to Their Subtexts

my theatre teacher has all of these on a wall in his classroom.

[veeranger]

no offense but “family is the people you choose to surround yourself with and love you dearly” will literally ALWAYS be a better theme and a better concept than “love the family you were arbitrarily stuck with because they’re related to you”

[catchymemes]

[softandcozythings]

There is something so relaxing about baking. Seeing the different ingredients combine to a delicious batter, sweet scents filling the house, warmth coming from the oven, and finally eating a wonderful dish you created and instantly feeling a little bit better, because nobody can be completely sad while eting some nice brownies.

[iamkamallama]

Someone I love is having a medical emergency rn

I know this is dumb but I just really need to know it’s going to be okay even though I know the only way to find out is to live it. I just keep thinking that I need to stay calm because if I don’t it’ll actually sink in that this is the scariest shit.

[thecornercoffeeshop]

Library of Vienna

[fairycosmos]

i was so angry at everything when i was 13. and i was right