Today most people drink alcohol because they want to get away
sometimes from hard reality or just to have some short good time.
Another simple reason many people drink in my country is they have been
scared, or they just can not take it any more.
Why did drugs become more important during the war?
In hard times people experience lot of different emotions. Fear, courage, anxiety, crazyness or not logical bravery and so on. Fighting to survive was also new feeling for most. People needed something to melt all that together, thats why drugs were so important.
When you are inside your head in complete chaos, so many different emotions, using drugs to get away from everything to get one feeling that you know, even if feeling is not real and just you taking something, it is relief. It feels like you get to place you are familiar with in world that is full of chaos and suffering.
Alcohol becomes your very good friend, it became mine too. It was ticket to short ride somewhere else from very bad reality. Everybody drink or (and) smoke marijuana in that time, but more about marijuana in next post.
Alcohol
Alcohol has many good sides. It is useful for hygiene or to trade or give as present.
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ReplyDeleteAs I was reading "Seasons in Hell" about the war in the Balkins I thought to myself things might have been a little different without all the Slivovitz.
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I was at the NC Chapter of the league of the South's fall conference, yesterday. There was a talk on the Halifax Resolves, which empowered these men to vote for independence. The talk also compared the grievances with Britain to today's complaints about the gov.
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