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“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”

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Johann Hari,

Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

(via bigfatsun)

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crying because i have to leave a party early

#true story #i told myself i would prepare my one drink enjoy it and then leave #and now i’m feeling sober and my anxiety is creeping back in #and i’m realizing i have to be responsible and go home to my dog #but i’m sadge about it

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Kermit the Frog Stained Glass Window.

This may be at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta.

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#i love him!!! #stained glass Kermit

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#smoking without consequence 100% #like Natasha Lyone once said #why haven't they invented a cigarette that's good for you

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Oh I’m an asshole.

So today pulling into Stop and Shop, this lady cut me off and nearly drove into me, and then, when I tried to pass her, she swung to the right and nearly hit me again, and then flipped me off.

So somebody is having a bad day and taking it out on me. That’s fine. It’s harmless, and I don’t know what’s going on in this woman’s life. I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt she’s not just a piece of shit and is just having a bad day.

But then I park and she follows me, and gets out of the car and starts swearing at me and getting in my face.

Now I go from “indifferent” to “I’m gonna fuck with this woman’s head.” Now I would say I’m a gentleman of size, and in all black and bemohawked I probably look spookier than I actually am, so props to this lady for getting in my face. Now of course I’m not going to hit her, or even threaten violence. That’s shitty. Nobody should get threatened with violence.

Instead, I take a step back, narrowing my eyes like I’m studying her face really closely, and then I touch one of the several piece of “occulty” jewelry I’m wearing (none of which, by the way, are magicked in any way at all). Then I mumble some nonsense under my breath, and then make the fig gesture and the horns at her.

She stops, wide-eyed.

“WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST DO TO ME?”

I chuckled, and shake my head. “Nothing at all.” I say in a not-terrible convincing voice. “But every time something bad happens to you today, you’re gonna be thinking of me.”

Then I winked at her, and walked away.

#the wink is the absolute cherry for me #absolutely fantastic #zane

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loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

#bringing it back again #literally always true

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> THE JESTER

#the jester #i would watch 3 seasons and a movie of this

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this emerged in my head when I was trying to drive

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it’s the day again ♥️

#march 3rd #luv you amy winehouse

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Weird how “masturbating and falling asleep in the late afternoon” isn’t regarded as a cherished summertime tradition

#greatest hits

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Manifesting

#this one’s going on the vision board #i still wanna go hard top camping #and also be hot and cute and fucked in the back of the truck

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cats will see u eating a single bagel and look at u like your a european monarch cackling eating every last shred of food while they a poor beggar boy go off and die at war for the kingdom of a god they no longer believe in

#its me #I am the girlfriend breed of cat #posts I wish I could tag him in #T

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"who said that" is my ult fav thing to say ever after saying something insane

#literally I've been doing this bit for a month #and LET ME TELL YOU #it gets me rolling #and its made even better by turning to accuse someone who hasn't been speaking #especially a PET #“who said that?? WATSON- show some class my man” #and watson is like going to town on his paws or wahtever

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does anybody want to be my friend on roblox? i only play tycoon games and i have zero robux but im literally always online rn

otherwise i’m getting animal crossing this weekend and you’ll never see me again.

#bird noises #personal #swagrising #swagittariusrising

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be the surreal nonsense you wish to see in the world

#:) #lark.core

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#my friend does a drag number as the Count for halloween #he's showed me the ways #so yeah id fuck the count

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full of tears today

but my boyfriend made me lunch

and it tastes like love

#they're BLTs but instead of tomato they have cheese #I love him #I wanted to see if I could write a haiku on this experience #(im back into haikus now) #we went on a run and I cried the whole time #but we came back and took a nap #and now he's making me candied bacon