Do you think that drug addiction is a symptom of larger societal ills? What is it about our culture that leaves so many feeling like they're inadequate, trying any ill to find a cure?

For those of you who have the reading comprehension skills of an American public school student, I’ll summarize.

There’s an underlying err to the culture in the US in general as of the last generation, most well depicted by Will Ferral. The humor is in pointing out the regular things we do. A Christmas ad this last season showed a personal shopping lady who told her client that X product shows that we love someone, but we can’t say that until they say it first; ‘we’ve all been there.’ More crudely, Will Ferral or Family Guy will purposefully spend too much time being very explicit about how they pooped in their pants. It came out of their butt and is now running down their leg. They will be watching as the janitor cleans that up. Then the camera pulls to the janitor who doesn’t know what has just happened, but we do. Hitchcock’s table, if you will.

In conclusion; societies ills which cause addiction are the lack of a society. We are the products. It’s not only social media where the adage holds, if you’re not paying for it, you are the product. That dynamic is much more clear when the only thing to do go shopping at the mall. So, there’s a feedback loop where we have nothing to do but go shopping, so ads tell us we suck unless we buy things, so we stay home and watch TV and buy things. However, once again like in prison, some dude who smuggled drugs up his whooo-whoo is the one who rules us all, until he doesn’t. Look at what someone else did and use the math that their actions implied.

Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support. I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized. he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that. he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened. he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence. i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction. after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly. things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it. we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe … our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far? this has upset me so much its hard to even function.

You’re wrong, and now you don’t have to do much of anything to be right. Back in the day, it was a whole thing about finding a payphone and waiting behind the 7/11 for hours if you were smart enough to be a punk rock stoner, and above all this consumerism, maaannn. It only took 30 years for the rest of the world to catch on.

The 80s was the era of -er words. Everything was “bigger, better, longer, stronger…” Today I think will be known as the the sad boi time. What the commercials do is show the person who doesn’t use the product, and how they feel bad, rightfully so. One that comes to mind recently is the two ladies who use deodorant. The one who uses the ‘better’ deodorant is in brighter lights, richer colors, thinner, of course prettier, and no doubt that she won the treadmill race. Of course ugly fat bitches use the wrong product.

It’s not that the opposite of addiction is connection. It’s that connection gives us something to do other than watch TV and need to be healed. We can shift the program on both accounts to not fear loss, but rather to strive towards gain.

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ps., my concern for the coming generation is that you need a prescription to get the pill they showed on TV. So now, all the former fast food places are becoming doctor’s offices. Just look around, or ask an old guy to remember what was there 20 years ago. From the impetuses of Obama Care when they told us we are getting screwed, they created a sense of fearing loss. They get cheap, good pills. We need them, too. And thusly, my evil scheme has reached fruition. The economic driver is not how a new cleaner makes you not fat, ugly, and stupid because someone thinks you smell. The thing to change is your very self. Don’t lose 5 pounds and look good in stretchy jeans, take Bwatachtagavore, and increase your dopamine levels by 300% in 90 days, that’s 70% faster than Zippyzoonabalk, try your free trial today by calling this number or scanning the code on your screen.

In a world without a third space, we have become what citizens thought we would upon the advent of TV. We live in the TV. What has shifted at some particular point is that we no longer are told that a product makes us better. We are shown and empathize with someone who is demonstrably ostracized for not using the correct product. How that carries over into the real world is we understand valid, adult, human relationships as a fear of loss of relationship due to our very being. We are “Red Queened” into being better than we are in order to be how we are. That’s work. That creates a wound to need to heal by the product presented. That is fine if not a little shitty on paper at a marketing pitch. But that, as stated, creates a wound.

TV commercials.

What does it mean when we dream about demons, ghosts, monsters, etc.?

As we have nothing better to do than to watch TV commercials and be told we suck, we don’t understand that there is another way to exist. Like never being out of the ghetto, or asking a fish “how’s the water,” we think and more aptly feel that we need a thing to achieve baseline. That is an oxymoron on purpose. The very DSM5 itself shows that nothing creates addiction better than the chemical overload of drugs. Yes, shopping rising dopamine, but naturally. A pile of meth does it way better. Plus, all the driving and trying on clothes look like barriers to me, like how a small fence is enough of a double-check to successfully prevent many impulsive suicides. Online shopping has caught up to the times, for better or worse by removing those little voices in slow traffic that tell you to not buy shit. But, speaking for myself, there’s a few gallons of booze at home, already. Why get up? The only reason would be to get more booze so that you don’t have to get up tomorrow, because, leaving the house is hard.