As a rule, humans love drugs. From cannabis to psilocybin, amphetamines to adrenaline, we cannot get enough. Wether you’re getting you’re fix from a little plastic bag or by watching a screen, you’re feinding for it.
The thing I find fascinating today is the way we can justify it to ourselves. I’m not saying all drugs are the same, no. A bit of the old serotonin derived from a good movie enjoyed with someone you love is not equal to a line of coke, and neither of those experiences are equal to gardening. And don’t get me started on gardening with someone you love.
An exercise I like to do, is when I start to justify away a bad habit: playing too much of a video game, biting my nails, a candy bar, I’ll apply those same dismissals to a vice I care for not at all.
If I were to apply my own defense of video games to, say, gambling, how hard would I laugh at that?
Well, a round or two of poker’s okay because I’m doing math, and also I might win some money, and hey, everybody’s gotta let off some steam.
The thing I find fascinating today is the way we can justify it to ourselves. I’m not saying all drugs are the same, no. A bit of the old serotonin derived from a good movie enjoyed with someone you love is not equal to a line of coke, and neither of those experiences are equal to gardening. And don’t get me started on gardening with someone you love.
An exercise I like to do, is when I start to justify away a bad habit: playing too much of a video game, biting my nails, a candy bar, I’ll apply those same dismissals to a vice I care for not at all.
If I were to apply my own defense of video games to, say, gambling, how hard would I laugh at that?
Well, a round or two of poker’s okay because I’m doing math, and also I might win some money, and hey, everybody’s gotta let off some steam.