[FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

[Marcus Daniels]

< I'm muddled in the middle, enjoying having friends who are
much more experimental in those domains than I ever will be while also
wincing at some of the self/other harm that seems to go with (at least
the) illegal substances/activities as well as wincing at all the
puritanical need to decide for others what their goals in life and risk
envelopes while pursuing them should be. >

I just don't want there be any expectation that I wince, or that I help clean up the mess.  When someone goes flying through their windshield and breaks their neck because they didn't wear a seatbelt, well, that's what happened.   I don't want to hear their families whining about the cost of medical coverage, especially if those families are against things like the Affordable Care Act.   Yup, there could be Fentanyl in a drug.  If it could just be more reliably fatal.


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On 1/7/22 11:14 AM, glen wrote:
> Thanks for that validation. I think SteveS' conception is rooted in
> the US' typical puritanical approach to everything. I admit I'm
> ignorant of the history of HR. But my sense is that non-US regions
> have a richer cultural approach to handling drugs. Even China, which
> we often ridicule as totalitarian, has lived with opium use for a much
> longer time.
>
> Here in the US, the puritans will steal any and every thing and warp
> it to their narrative, including HR. I think SteveS is a victim of
> that narrative.

I heard your conception as one of your own proverbial "Just So" stories,
and recognize my own experience of *other's* conceptions (from whom I
first encountered HR)  as a complementary "Just So! Oh No!" story.
Wishful/Wistful thinking vs negative Paranoiac thinking perhaps.   I
feel that my own apprehension is pretty muddled in the middle.  I'm not
busy worrying that drug users (legal or illegal, prescribed or
self-medicating) will be harmed by that behaviour...  It is mostly
outside of my concern (except when I might be consulting with someone
trying to distill their own spirits).   Clearly there are lots of people
who seek chemical alteration and seek a society that elaborately helps
them explore that to the extreme whilst there is another (bimodal?)
faction (prohibitionists/puritans) which seeks to quash all of that
behaviour.   I'm muddled in the middle, enjoying having friends who are
much more experimental in those domains than I ever will be while also
wincing at some of the self/other harm that seems to go with (at least
the) illegal substances/activities as well as wincing at all the
puritanical need to decide for others what their goals in life and risk
envelopes while pursuing them should be.

I am a mild victim of many narratives I suppose.

- SteveS



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