Elitist

Elitist thinking plays a major roll in the perpetuation of the failed drug war. The temporary escape of drugs from a life filled with difficulty, poverty, hate and self-loathing is truly intoxicating. For the desperately poor the money from drug sales is an equally intoxicating temptation.

I just left my doctors and refilled my prescription. What this means is I now have an attention span and can write.
O.k I have an attention span but still can’t write.
I need a new drug, Prescription drug of course because if it doesn’t come from a doctor you’ve paid $150 to for 15mins of their time then it’s a crime and your scum.
Fortunately for me I have insurance to cover my dealers…I mean doctors fee.
this is not a rant against the psychiatric community it’s more of a rant about society as a whole. My father said it best with an editorial called Elitist. I am an elitist. I try not to be but struggle with my disgust at the meth addict with no teeth or the pot head from high school that is now a coke addict and still working at the local bar. I do feel superior to these people while I take Adderall like it’s candy and stay up all night playing Zuma. I have alot of growth ahead of me.


Elitist


Elitist thinking plays a major roll in the perpetuation of the failed drug war. The temporary escape of drugs from a life filled with difficulty, poverty, hate and self-loathing is truly intoxicating. For the desperately poor the money from drug sales is an equally intoxicating temptation.

For lives devoid of these miseries the problem is distant and hard to understand. The old expression “driven to drink” is just a colloquialism to most elitists. They are not tempted to risk all that they have with illegal drugs. To them it is nothing more than weakness. They see a difference between taking their prescribed Valium to cope with the stress in their lives and a homeless man smoking a joint under a bridge for the same reason.

Drug abuse is not choosing between lawfulness and criminality, it is choosing a fleeting alternative to despair over the relative slight possibility of punishment in a free society. No matter how draconian these punishments the abuse of drugs continues, as does human misery. Difficult lives become impossible, not because of drugs but because of the drug war.

The elitists see only laws, crime, and punishment. They do not see their position in life as superior they see themselves as superior. They then use their superior position with the government to visit even more misery on the miserable. If these elitists are truly superior then why can they not see how wrong they are?

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Rick Wolfe

The last tyranny of man


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This is the first time I have read your blog. I know what you are talking about when you say you struggle with disgust at socially unacceptable drugs. I have ADHD also, and remember what it was like to get my Adderall every month. I used to look forward to Xanax scripts also. That, of course was after I decided it was inappropriate to still smoke weed.

I kind of woke up to just how elitist I had become regarding drug abuse this week. My uncle’s stepson died after using meth on Monday. He wasn’t poor. He wasn’t from a bad family. He turned 18 less than a month ago and came a good, respectable family. But, meth is becoming so acceptable that we don’t realize when it makes it’s way into our respectable social circles. That is how elitist I have become. If the kid offered me a Valium or a Percodan I would have offered him a glass of wine or a beer to wash it down. If he offered me crystal meth, I would have laughed at him like he told a joke. But, sadly, it isn’t a joke.

and here I was becoming concerned because I realized I was becoming a wine snob? Every now and then we need these reality checks to remind us of where we are. Let’s just hope that the check never bounces harder than we can ever recover from.

a very truthful and somewhat haunting blog- one of my favourites.. keep it up!
Francesca
http://www.mynameisfrancesca.co.uk

Yeah I feel a little weird telling people I’m on Ritalin esp after the Cruise Crap. I swear Ritalin changed my life and saved my job. I’d post about it on my blog if my boyfriend’s ex wouldn’t use that as another reason for his daughter not to come to our place.

Anyway…my bf has been called an elitist a few times.

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