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Originally Posted by rostasi
evaluating your choices when it comes to drugs is a form of autonomy
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Amen to that.
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Originally Posted by rostasi
For well over 50 years, I've been continuously refining my abilities
to escape from myself when it comes to the work I do.
Mind altering substances, OTOH, actually highly emphasize your
"self" at various mental levels, so I'm just not interested in that.
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That's very interesting. I know that Michel Foucault had a different take* (for him, hard drugs were one of the means of undoing or at least freeing up the fixed nature of one's identity, going beyond its monotony) but it seems to me that for the vast majority of people what you said is exactly right.
*Mostly in private conversations with people who've since written about him, he had zero interest in being a Timothy Leary.