TreasureVibe
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Hmm. So illegal drug culture, isn't it weird how our society just tolerates it so much? And... Isn't it a vicious cycle, as the youth who grow up to become lawmakers would loosen illegal drug regulation more and more while making it culturally more acceptable?Well for one there's a difference the way a young mind & mature mind think. drugs aside, i don't think a mature mind can comprehend the desire to say hang off the roof of a building, or any other 'crazy' thing youth may desire. i think alcohol was the go to 'rad' state of mind prior to the 1960s. this seems to be a society thing. the natives of america & africa would use mind expanding drugs for ritual purposes. the way clans worked back then, it made no sense to loose your mind aimlessly and/or do crazy things that would hurt your chances of bearing offspring. these days the native clans have been broken, and many suffer with aimlessly consuming drugs, especially alcohol. my parents grew up during the high drug days of the 70s in the city yet never touched anything other than alcohol. their italian communities did not glamorize the synthetic drug induced parting that a lot of mainstream pop culture did. for teens a lot of choices are made by youth culture... monkey see, mokey do. we've lost teen initiation, which lead to youth find out their true self a lot earlier in life. reckless behaviour seems to be the desired outcome in youth for the last half century.
i think we all unconsciously desire the clan feeling. i see it among other things, in politics all the time. maybe there's a vibration people seek when in a setting where most of the people are intoxicated with some sort of substance. a decade or so ago i went to a buddies house for a poker tournament and everyone was consuming shrooms which i thought was crazy as i had only ever consumed while in nature or bonfires. some of the guys were saying i was being a downer cuz i didn't want to join, which still confuses me why that would be the case. i've never touched synthetics, so i can't say what desire that type of choice is after.
Lack of teen initiation plus loose illegal drugs culture... I think our society is pretty sick if you look at it this way! Peer pressure is a symptom of it.