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🆕 「 Ratpark」 by PEOPLE 1, Kei Sugawara Available for streaming worldwide!🌐 Added to our weekly playlist 🎧 https://spoti.fi/3lgjH73

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Get a rat & put it in a cage & give it 2 water bottles. 1 is just water, 1 is water laced with heroin or cocaine. The rat will almost always prefer the drugged water & almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within 2 weeks. It’s our theory of addiction Bruce in the ’70s said, “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, #RatPark 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 & they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water & 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. Bruce says that both the right-wing & left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. 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, it’s connection. The engine of our society is geared towards making us connect with things not people. 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 - we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes & dreams & ambitions on things we can buy & consume, drug addiction is really a subset of that #brucekalexander https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc529cTKrml/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Kenny: Yeah, your right 

Kenny: their eyes are more of a reddish-brown color btw

Karen & Butters: How do you know that

Butters: yeah like it might as well be red Eric’s like crazy I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a demon tbh

Karen: why are you two speaking in acronyms

Kenny: Hmm 

Kenny: What if I name them after everyone?

Butters: Isn’t that a little narcissistic?

Kenny: No this is 

Karen: Your naming him Gregory

Kenny: I am naming him Gregory

Butters: Then fine

Butters: This one should be named Kenny

Butters: Because it looks like it has a little parka on

Kenny: awww your right, he does look a littler orange parka

Kenny: Kenny Junior it is

Kenny: How about this little one is Karen?

Karen: Why? 

Kenny: Because they look like you when you were younger

Kenny: just so sweet and kind

Karen: I am still sweet and kind

Kenny: :o really 

Karen: >:p

Karen: yeah none of them really look like Butters

Kenny: what about that bunny 

Kenny: we practically have just been calling it “Bunny Butters” ever sense it got here

Butters: Really you didn’t pick any of the names that I suggested to you

Kenny: dude you gave me girl names

Butters: no Alix isn’t just a girl’s name nor Azalea

Kenny: Azalea is a total girls name

Butters: it’s a name of a flower

Kenny: Butters that's the point

Butters: but what about Alix

Karen: OVER RULED WE ARE CALLING IT BUTTERS

Kenny: AGREED

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[askratpark]

Butters: Well yeah, I died my hair, I wanted to try something different

Butters: I am glad you asked

Butters: But enuf about me, what are you going to name them Kenny?

Kenny: Hmmmm 

Kenny: This one looks a little twitchy don’t you think?

Kenny: Reminds me of Tweek when he was younger

Butters: Tweek is still twitchy

Kenny: Yeah but less so he can actually sit still for 10 seconds now

Karen: REALLY that’s a new record!!!

Karen: Did Tricia mark it down? I hope she did

Kenny: No it was Craig

Karen: oh :<

Butters: Why are you marking it down?

Karen: well one time when Tricia had me over to play Tweek was there and we were getting hungry

Karen: So me, Tricia, Craig, and Tweek had lunch together and Tweek was looking off and stop shaking for 3 seconds!

Karen: It was so beautiful seeing him calm, so me Tricia and Craig have been writing down the time date and seconds of Tweek just in a calm state

Butters: Really? I am glad that he’s getting better

Karen: yeah but its now have been a rivalry, me and Tricia against Craig to see who can have Tweek calm the longest

Butters: Does Tweek know about this?

Karen: not yet but he’s been close to figuring us out

Karen: like when Craig tried winning by bringing him to this beauty place but that didn’t work, it just made him more stressed being in a new place, and the stress of choosing what he wanted 

 Karen: Currently Craigs winning since he’s with him all the time, but me and Tricia aren’t to close behind him

Butters: So is that why you asked me to buy that watch for you

Karen: Yeah, and to also keep track of the time so i know when to get back home

Karen: ALSO no one tell Tweek this!!!

[https://discord.gg/qFgSPBW] 

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Start of RatPark

Karen: *sigh*

Karen: It’s been 10 minutes

Karen: Pick a damn card Butters

Butters: mhmmmm

Butters: You always win our games

Butters: You have gotten so smart

Karen: Flattery won’t win you Uno, nor help you pick a card

Kenny: I GOT RATS

Karen & Butters: WTF KENNY

Butters: Wait what you have rats?

Karen: Yeah aren’t we supposed to keep this place clean and not bring dirty street rats in here

Kenny: But these aren’t dirty street rats

Kenny: There clean street rats

Karen: HUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh

Karen: We’re here for 1 week and your already playing princess Kenny again

Kenny: >:0

Kenny: Any way, it will be fine

Kenny: The landlord loves pets and practically lets us live here for free

Kenny: So, do you want to see one or not

Butters: They won’t bite right?

Butters: All the rats you get tend to bite really hard and I don’t want to go to the doctors again

Kenny: No no they don’t bite, look

Kenny: All the rats I meet always bit me, but not these ones  

Karen: Just because a rat doesn’t bite you when you meet it doesn’t mean you can bring it home

Butters: OOOOOOooooooooo

Butters: They have such cute markings!

Kenny: I know right!!!

Karen: *sigh*

Karen: So how many do you have?

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Bubble Blowing Baby 📷: @kelseyvillacorte #ratpark #bubbleblowingbaby

[dysharmreduction-blog]

This is a nice rethink.  Perhaps simplistic, but definitely pointing towards the public health problem drug use creates and represents rather than the legal and moral problem that’s being ineffectively battled at present.

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