Posted by Chairman_MAO on October 11, 2011, at 12:33:29
In reply to Re: Dysphoria » Chairman_MAO, posted by sigismund on October 10, 2011, at 9:30:02
> What a delightful post.
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Thank you. It's nice to know other people out there can see this.> They will not stop.
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And most people _embrace_ the tyranny. Virtually no one even knows how to frame a rational debate about this anymore.> You're not wrong.
I know. A mentor of mine, a psychopharmacologist who also studies drugs and society, told me recently that there will be no reform anything like what we're talking about for another 50 years. If you look at the history of prohibition and the attitudes of the last few generations, you'll start to see that the time frame that he provided, which looks like a mere guesstimate, is probably about as accurate a forecast as one could make. That is a best-case scenario--the children of the baby boomers have to become elderly first before we even have a chance at real reform.
But I digress ...
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