17-02-2026, 02:08 AM
@mvp2 @Honest
swap drugs out of the picture and nothing breaks.
Plenty of people look back on years spent chasing status, validation, or success and say the same thing: I was empty. I was trapped. I didn’t know why I was doing it. We just don’t pathologize those loops, because they’re socially sanctioned. We call them careers. We call them ambition. We call them growing up.
The argument isn’t “drugs are good.”
It’s “the nervous system does not care how you justified the thing that lit it up.”
Meaning, dignity, future, identity these are overlays. Sometimes they enrich experience. Sometimes they hollow it out. But they are not identical to experience itself, and pretending they are is how people end up defending lives they don’t actually enjoy.
swap drugs out of the picture and nothing breaks.
Plenty of people look back on years spent chasing status, validation, or success and say the same thing: I was empty. I was trapped. I didn’t know why I was doing it. We just don’t pathologize those loops, because they’re socially sanctioned. We call them careers. We call them ambition. We call them growing up.
The argument isn’t “drugs are good.”
It’s “the nervous system does not care how you justified the thing that lit it up.”
Meaning, dignity, future, identity these are overlays. Sometimes they enrich experience. Sometimes they hollow it out. But they are not identical to experience itself, and pretending they are is how people end up defending lives they don’t actually enjoy.
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