Addiction and Imprisonment.
By: Sammy Weerahannaddi
Tags: Psychological Disorder, Prison, Addiction

These two words are basically the same. I’ve just got a YouTube recommendation about death and psychosis resulting from the use of synthetic marijuana by prisoners and what a tragedy I thought.

Our culture is destroying itself at an increasingly rapid rate. I see blog post titles all the time about how the systems both social and technological that maintain the status quo of our culture are so beyond complex that no one person can apparently grasp the depth of its function, or rather dysfunction.

Man doesn’t exactly seem to understand yet that the culture one operates in is an abstraction of himself in the sense that each individual both inherits and maintains a basic psychological division in the scope of his life that goes something like this. This is me and this is my culture; we can’t seem to grasp the non verbal depth of the fact that whatever an individual assumes to be his culture is a product of his perception, which is a product of the knowledge one has gathered through 10, 20, or 30 years of operating in a world steeped in the psychological dysfunction of man who still has a great deal of the animal in him.

There is no me and my culture. There’s only me and what I perceive to be my culture. And this perception which is based on acquired knowledge is extremely limited and personal so when one attempts to cooperate with another in this world there is always conflict. And this conflict pervades every part of the life of modern man, so much so that his entire psychology is based on conflict.

So I feel it’s rather obvious that the basic psychology of man is not intelligence. There is a great deal of skilled intellects out there, but these groups of people are limited to a narrow domain of science or arts; which has nothing to do with the basic psychology of the human being. One could be extremely skilled in mathematics, but be totally incompetent with his relationships with other human beings. This actually seems to be what limits innovation in these fields. It wasn’t the competition of you versus me that helped Einstein or Maxwell with their insights that helped get us to the level of comfort and entertainment we’ve come to develop in the 21st century; but it was the you versus me that used their insights to create the nuclear bomb, which is an outward extension of the psychological disorder of man.

If man was basically intelligent our culture would not be based on war. If there was any intelligence at all parents wouldn’t send their children to war to get killed or their arms and legs blown off, no one would tolerate it.

Going back to addiction, this seems to be the only solace the individual has found after accepting the inheritance of psychological disorder. Every man seems to be addicted to something or another; some substance, a vice, a pattern of living; and in this addiction there is the sensation of psychological security from all the chaos one perceives in the world. And in this very innocent way, the human becomes imprisoned in his own psychology and cannot live in this life without fear, anxiety, or regret. What a waste.