- Aesthetics of Drug Use by Karlin
18 y
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Blog: Path of my Life
If drugs has been legal all this time, throught the creative periods in the 2nd half of the 20th C., we would have developed a more cultured approach to taking them. This is the 'aesthetic' approach
{Def.of aesthetic -"The study of the psychological responses to beauty and artistic experiences; deals with the nature and expression of beauty ; the branch of metaphysics concerned with the laws of perception"}
For eg., when a person takes opiates, the effect can be to numb the pain, to block out negative thoughts or become mentally numb, or in less practical terms the user could focus on the experience of it, noticing the bodily sensations and mental creativity that seems to raise up from opiates.
Those are just three of the various ways to use opiates. There may be as many as there are users - we all experience it differently. Even for people using prescribed morphine for pain control can enjoy the aesthetic qualities, its part of the trade off for the pain so you can still be happy with life.
For cannibus, there is many well know aesthetics - the munchies, the laughter, the paranoia too!
I think there would be a real benefit in seeing drug use this way. It would actually bring more responsible use of drugs, because abusing drugs with a mean spriit, almost a type of "vengance" that many hard core users seem to have going on, would be seen as "not getting it".
Hard Core Abusers would come around to "the niceness", and they would be more carefull to avoid the dangers like infection [a real bummer]. They would respect others more too - because they now depend on others not to bring them down with being bummed out and complaining and so on.
When looking for beauty, people become beautiful. The world becomes more beautiful when people look for beautifull things in it, because thats what they actually see then.
Instead, we have mean-spirited users - the mentality of the War on Drugs - in a large majority, with only a few mild mannered pot smokers still going for the aesthetics of the drug. The early 1960's drug use was all about "experience", and that was killed, crushed, and swept away by the War on Drugs, by those mindnumbing propagandist paranoias plnated in every drug users mind. It has only led to more "abuse" of drugs, in the attitude with which they are taken.
the brain dead War on Drugs minions cannot see drug use any other way, despite the fact that some of them are addicts, like Rush Limbaugh. They will never know the beauty, because they refuse to look and see that beauty can be anywhere, in everything. Its not just drugs either - nature, people, unity of all things, and even death has a poetic beauty [ in that it makes room for new lives].
The War on Drugs authorities do not see any of that. Too bad, because things like that spread unless taken down on purpose. Maybe they did know that much, maybe they did see it coming, and the shift in perception that would come with it, and then peace would break o ut and thats not what the Elites want, they need war and strife and inequality and Elitism and poverty and hate and divisions and mean spirited drug users for their world to work. [all things that the classic hippy rejected as "a real bummer, man".].
K
PS - i do not intend this to increase drug use, but rather to make drug use more beautiful for those who do partake, for whatever reason.
It is a healing thing...
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- Drugs are Tools by John Cullison
18 y
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Like any tool, the intent of the user determines the "good" or "evil" therein.
A hammer can be used to build a house or kill a person. It doesn't make the hammer good or evil.
A drug can be used to alleviate pain, explore awareness, enhance feelings, reduce feeling, reduce awareness, escape pain, escape reality, deny responsibility, justify harm, to have fun, to harm others, etc., etc., etc.
Whether or not those actions are good or evil are entirely dependent on the situation. After all, using a hammer to kill a person might be a good thing -- maybe the person killed was trying to kill an innocent.
It all comes down to whether it is acceptable for one group to dictate to everyone else how to live their lives.
Only tyrants and willing slaves think so.
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- Re: Drugs are Tools by Karlin
18 y
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Thanks John, thats good - i love that analogy
It helps what I was trying to say. Intent is where the heart of the issue is, and there will be much less good intent in drug use when there is a War on Drugs. Too much paranoia and violence and of course there will be greed, theft, profitteering, etc. when there is prohibition and the price goes up.
Cannibus would not have any violence associated with it, its only because it is lumped in 'legally'with the harder drugs that the profits and crimes and violence show up associated with marijuana.
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