WHY DO WE SMOKE, DRINK, AND USE DANGEROUS DRUGS? - Deepstash
WHY DO WE SMOKE, DRINK, AND USE DANGEROUS DRUGS?

WHY DO WE SMOKE, DRINK, AND USE DANGEROUS DRUGS?

Why would we do something that we know to be harmful or dangerous?

  • They do so because our drugs of abuse are addictive—once you start, the chemistry of the drug affects the brain, making you want to continue.
  • Ten thousand years ago we “displayed” by challenging a lion or a tribal enemy. Today we do it in other dangerous ways, such as driving fast or consuming dangerous drugs.

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear weapons—all within a heartbeat of evolutionary time….

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