Alcohol: preventing the masses from doing anything significant?
Does alcohol subdue people, removing their ability to be effective?
For many people, weekends are an oasis – an island amid the sea of employment. Weekends are a temporary escape from the bindings of their employer – a blip of freedom sandwiched between infinite slices of work.
And many people spend their weekends running away from their own consciousness, medicating their minds and forgetting their in-trays, their supervisor and their upcoming appraisal. Alcohol numbs the pain and makes all the bad stuff go away.
But Monday comes and the bad stuff is back. And with the bad stuff comes a hangover. Mid-week drinking or drug-taking blurs the edges of the monotony, the obligations and the stress of bowing to pedants and middle-managers. In between these narcotic thrusts the men and women of our nation are rendered pallid and uncertain.
Does our collective dependency on drugs and other mind-numbing things (like TV) crush our spirit and allow powerful men to dominate us? Do our politicians get away with heinous crimes because everyone is too dull to fight back?
Discuss.
Yes i agree. But i don’t think that the masses will ever. Drinking is too deeply and culturally ingrained. Although the anti smoking lobby has been successfull with government backing.
Maybe the truth is that people know but don’t care, its too easy to stand back and allow others to dictate. Maybe we think that to give up getting drunk and watching rubbish TV would make us dullards.
I know a lot of young people who think that.
Anyway must go, Britains Got Talent’s on, now where did i put that corkscrew…………..