The Junk Drawer

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“Put a rat in a cage and give it 2 water bottles. One is just water and one is water laced with heroin or cocaine. The rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself in a couple of weeks. That is our theory of addiction.
Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It has nothing to do. Let’s try this a bit differently.” So he built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything a rat could want is in Rat Park. Lovely food. Lots of sex. Other rats to befriend. Colored balls. Plus both water bottles, one with water and one with drugged water. But here’s what's fascinating: In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use it. None of them overdose. None of them use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. What Bruce did shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. The right-wing theory is that it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is that 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.
Now, we created a society where significant numbers of us can't bear to be present in our lives without being on something, drink, drugs, sex, shopping... We’ve created a hyper consumerist, hyper individualist, isolated world that is, for many of us, more like the first cage than the bonded, connected cages we need.
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of it, is geared toward making us connect with things not people. You are not a good consumer citizen if you spend your time bonding with the people around you and not stuff. In fact, we are trained from a young age to focus our hopes, dreams, and ambitions on things to buy and consume. Drug addiction is a subset of that."
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This racist fascist sounds like a moron, but he is actually well educated and must know he's spotung bullshit. For someone in their 20's retirement could be 45 years away, at the rate of technological change driving increases in the standard of living and with robots doing most of the work, WTF knows when retirement age will be in the 2060s! Every year technology allows us to produce more of everything with less people and the pace of change grows faster each decade.

If your ideology involves concentrating wealth even more than technology and capitalism do, then it is a losing one, wealth inequality is one of the biggest drivers of problems in America, followed by republicans and guns. Wealth inequality driven and maintained by republicans who use culture wars, racism, religion and foxnews to brainwash America's fear driven morons into fucking themselves and everybody else.

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DIY-HP-LED said:
This racist fascist sounds like a moron, but he is actually well educated and must know he's spotung bullshit. For someone in their 20's retirement could be 45 years away, at the rate of technological change driving increases in the standard of living and with robots doing most of the work, WTF knows when retirement age will be in the 2060s! Every year technology allows us to produce more of everything with less people and the pace of change grows faster each decade.

If your ideology involves concentrating wealth even more than technology and capitalism do, then it is a losing one, wealth inequality is one of the biggest drivers of problems in America, followed by republicans and guns. Wealth inequality driven and maintained by republicans who use culture wars, racism, religion and foxnews to brainwash America's fear driven morons into fucking themselves and everybody else.

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Roger A. Shrubber

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DIY-HP-LED said:
This racist fascist sounds like a moron, but he is actually well educated and must know he's spotung bullshit. For someone in their 20's retirement could be 45 years away, at the rate of technological change driving increases in the standard of living and with robots doing most of the work, WTF knows when retirement age will be in the 2060s! Every year technology allows us to produce more of everything with less people and the pace of change grows faster each decade.

If your ideology involves concentrating wealth even more than technology and capitalism do, then it is a losing one, wealth inequality is one of the biggest drivers of problems in America, followed by republicans and guns. Wealth inequality driven and maintained by republicans who use culture wars, racism, religion and foxnews to brainwash America's fear driven morons into fucking themselves and everybody else.

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He pulls some "probably" statistic out of his ass, and that's the basis of his financial plan?
Sounds about average for the republicans.
 
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