01.04.25

m reminds us that he won’t drink and then there we are. three birds perched on a telephone line and he's there in the middle, counterbalancing us. teetotallers lead severe lives. anyone with a relationship with substances leads severe lives, whether youre in it or out of it, having a policy about liquor is damn near all consuming. how do you explain the most universal human experience to a person that has refused to dip his toes in? is it possible to understand what it means to be human without engaging in the most important activities? those that choose to drink because they can and those that choose to drink because they won't live in entirely different poles of the human experience somehow unified by the refusal to indulge in one of them. more common than sex, on the same level as eating or breathing. there are few things we do more naturally than drink.

studies - yes - tell us now that the newest generation is impervious to substances. new kids don't drink, they don't smoke, they don't fuck, hell, do they even eat? is it possible for a generation to not drink? we didn't do the most fucking so that wouldn't surprise me, but surely the enterprising american spirit is somewhere embedded deep down.

instead we need preservation, we need to fight the tides of time and reverse the clock. aging is awful if you're not aging to a cause. aging is just getting older if nothing's happening while you're doing it. could a war save us? could internet regulation save us? drug dealers would've shat their pants when the internet first blew up if they had the ability to see down the line at all. the END of SEX, the END of smoking POT. high schoolers don't want to smoke pot anymore. it came and went.

the best thing about the internet is that we can finally control the collective experience. drugs could tell you anything based on whatever stupid shit was going on in your stupid little budding brain. now we can directly BEAM, we can BEAM straight through the wire to you, FUCK THE WIRE! first television amalgamated and then machine learning atomized. how do you unite a people of niche microcommunities?