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The role of alcohol, drugs, and other mind-altering substances in history can't be ignored. A lot of these fascinating people were intentionally and unintention
by barryrandall 2y ago
The role of alcohol, drugs, and other mind-altering substances in history can't be ignored. A lot of these fascinating people were intentionally and unintentionally drugging themselves.
- 8note 2y agoMany were also dealing with tuberculosis, and doing their best to square the wasting from TB with how their social class/status is supposed make them
- keiferski 2y agoDefinitely a factor but I think the movement of social life online and away from physical spaces probably played a bigger role.
- specialist 2y agoClay Shirky argued in Cognitive Surplus that excessive gin consumption was because those people were bored. It stopped when their job opportunities opened up. IIRC, he was optimistic that media consumption would similarly dry up once people had more compelling options.