Day 84 - Is this the return to Oz?

April 8, 2007 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

Meth is succeeding where AIDS ultimately failed: the virtual psychological paralysis, through fear, of a generation of gay men.

Crystal meth seduces the user with an overload of the energising feel good chemical, dopamine, into the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, inducing an intensely euphoric wave of positive energy that liberates him from his fears - including the specter of AIDS - and opening him up to a level of intimacy with others that he never imagined possible. Crystal appears to be his salvation, convincing him that he is in control, then proceeds to decimate his internal power supply, clamps shut his heart center and leaves a vacuum that can only be filled with an equivalent overload of what positive energy is not - negative energy (fear) - and a mind infinitely more tortured and disempowered than the one he sought to escape in the first place.

“Tina is politics and religion reduced to chemical form: it promises a glossy, simplistic ideal of peace and beauty while delivering devastation. That doesn’t stop its adherents from worshiping at Tina’s feet, trading in every vestige of material wealth to purchase the glow of her deceitful benevolence, and then - when every penny is gone - delivering up dignity, health, and life itself.”
~ Kelian Melloy [Edge Boston]

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  2. denverable on April 9, 2007 at 10:27 am

    dig scissor sisters-

    nice choice!

  3. Brian Finch on April 9, 2007 at 2:40 pm

    Yap, that pretty much sums it up. The shit is so good, yet so bad, well all bad, the good is a temp. illusion.

    Now that I’m day 10, I can appreciate the tow it took to get to 84.