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That realization is not unique to drugs. If this scares you stay away from reading Solzhenitsyn.
by read_if_gay_ 5y ago
That realization is not unique to drugs. If this scares you stay away from reading Solzhenitsyn.
- giantg2 5y agoKnowing that one has a capacity to commit violence isn't the concerning part. The "barely contained" part is.
- read_if_gay_ 5y agoYeah, Solzhenitsyn has that too. Here's a famous excerpt. https://mbird.com/literature/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-on-the-line-running-through-the-human-heart/ https://mbird.com/literature/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-on-the-l... Except the way he came to that reealization was through spending a good while in the gulag instead of tripping balls. Pick your poison.
- JasonFruit 5y agoThere's a difference between coming to that point of view by reason, willingly, and being dragged to it by a substance, unreasoningly.
- read_if_gay_ 5y agoTrue, some trips can get more deeply philosophiocal than you are comfortable with, but typically no matter what corner of philosophy you think yourself into, greater minds have been there and done that. For me for example it sparked some interest in reading Nietzsche.
- louis___ 5y agoTry using reason to explain the taste of an apple to someone who has never tasted it.