The Vicarious World Blog would like to introduce K.V. Sart.
Mr. Sart will be a regular on Vicarious World. He's insightful,
humorous, and is known to tussle with black bears out in the Appalachian
Mountains. He is also The Most Interesting Man in the World's primary adviser.
Read, and be merry.
It is within the soul that the individual finds their place in existence. Career choices, living arrangements, clothing fashions, all of them products of the human rationale, bound to the limits of environment and society. Where does true meaning come from, in the realest sense?
Read, and be merry.
It is within the soul that the individual finds their place in existence. Career choices, living arrangements, clothing fashions, all of them products of the human rationale, bound to the limits of environment and society. Where does true meaning come from, in the realest sense?
Often for those living on the fringe of society, psychoactive substances take the place of emotional connection and societal acceptance. For some, the search for meaning has been replaced by artificial brain stimulation. I am often struck by the sincerest and unapologetic misuse of substances by my generation. Boredom and a severe lack of knowledge seems the culprit. We must educate the youth in matters of proper timing and place for inebriation. We have all known the embarrassment of taking blues in a party setting, passing out on a couch with our shoes on, only to be written on with a black sharpie pen, and going into work the next day with fallacies printed around our mouths. Such a situation is the equivalent of attempting to hammer in a nail with a screwdriver; both, at their core essence do a similar job, but the situation itself dictates the tool.
It is too easy to simply say no one should ever take drugs; history has proven many times over that this does not work. The usefulness of particular substances for certain occasions is too great to ignore. Instead, an alteration in the attitudes towards drugs and drug use is needed.
Drug education, and drug prohibition in general, has not worked. It has become the policy of educators to lie to children about substance use. Let us take a moment to analyze this phenomenon.
Drug education, and drug prohibition in general, has not worked. It has become the policy of educators to lie to children about substance use. Let us take a moment to analyze this phenomenon.
