Do you think that drug addiction is a symptom of larger societal ills? What is it about our culture that leaves so many feeling like they're inadequate, trying any ill to find a cure?

As we have nothing better to do than to watch TV commercials and be told we suck, we don’t understand that there is another way to exist. Like never being out of the ghetto, or asking a fish “how’s the water,” we think and more aptly feel that we need a thing to achieve baseline. That is an oxymoron on purpose. The very DSM5 itself shows that nothing creates addiction better than the chemical overload of drugs. Yes, shopping rising dopamine, but naturally. A pile of meth does it way better. Plus, all the driving and trying on clothes look like barriers to me, like how a small fence is enough of a double-check to successfully prevent many impulsive suicides. Online shopping has caught up to the times, for better or worse by removing those little voices in slow traffic that tell you to not buy shit. But, speaking for myself, there’s a few gallons of booze at home, already. Why get up? The only reason would be to get more booze so that you don’t have to get up tomorrow, because, leaving the house is hard.

In a world without a third space, we have become what citizens thought we would upon the advent of TV. We live in the TV. What has shifted at some particular point is that we no longer are told that a product makes us better. We are shown and empathize with someone who is demonstrably ostracized for not using the correct product. How that carries over into the real world is we understand valid, adult, human relationships as a fear of loss of relationship due to our very being. We are “Red Queened” into being better than we are in order to be how we are. That’s work. That creates a wound to need to heal by the product presented. That is fine if not a little shitty on paper at a marketing pitch. But that, as stated, creates a wound.

You’re wrong, and now you don’t have to do much of anything to be right. Back in the day, it was a whole thing about finding a payphone and waiting behind the 7/11 for hours if you were smart enough to be a punk rock stoner, and above all this consumerism, maaannn. It only took 30 years for the rest of the world to catch on.

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For those of you who have the reading comprehension skills of an American public school student, I’ll summarize.

The 80s was the era of -er words. Everything was “bigger, better, longer, stronger…” Today I think will be known as the the sad boi time. What the commercials do is show the person who doesn’t use the product, and how they feel bad, rightfully so. One that comes to mind recently is the two ladies who use deodorant. The one who uses the ‘better’ deodorant is in brighter lights, richer colors, thinner, of course prettier, and no doubt that she won the treadmill race. Of course ugly fat bitches use the wrong product.

TV commercials.

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There’s an underlying err to the culture in the US in general as of the last generation, most well depicted by Will Ferral. The humor is in pointing out the regular things we do. A Christmas ad this last season showed a personal shopping lady who told her client that X product shows that we love someone, but we can’t say that until they say it first; ‘we’ve all been there.’ More crudely, Will Ferral or Family Guy will purposefully spend too much time being very explicit about how they pooped in their pants. It came out of their butt and is now running down their leg. They will be watching as the janitor cleans that up. Then the camera pulls to the janitor who doesn’t know what has just happened, but we do. Hitchcock’s table, if you will.

ps., my concern for the coming generation is that you need a prescription to get the pill they showed on TV. So now, all the former fast food places are becoming doctor’s offices. Just look around, or ask an old guy to remember what was there 20 years ago. From the impetuses of Obama Care when they told us we are getting screwed, they created a sense of fearing loss. They get cheap, good pills. We need them, too. And thusly, my evil scheme has reached fruition. The economic driver is not how a new cleaner makes you not fat, ugly, and stupid because someone thinks you smell. The thing to change is your very self. Don’t lose 5 pounds and look good in stretchy jeans, take Bwatachtagavore, and increase your dopamine levels by 300% in 90 days, that’s 70% faster than Zippyzoonabalk, try your free trial today by calling this number or scanning the code on your screen.

In conclusion; societies ills which cause addiction are the lack of a society. We are the products. It’s not only social media where the adage holds, if you’re not paying for it, you are the product. That dynamic is much more clear when the only thing to do go shopping at the mall. So, there’s a feedback loop where we have nothing to do but go shopping, so ads tell us we suck unless we buy things, so we stay home and watch TV and buy things. However, once again like in prison, some dude who smuggled drugs up his whooo-whoo is the one who rules us all, until he doesn’t. Look at what someone else did and use the math that their actions implied.

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It’s not that the opposite of addiction is connection. It’s that connection gives us something to do other than watch TV and need to be healed. We can shift the program on both accounts to not fear loss, but rather to strive towards gain.