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The services rendered by intoxicating substances in the struggle for happiness and in warding off misery rank so highly as a benefit that both individuals and races have given them an established position within their libido-economy.  It is not merely the immediate gain in pleasure which one owes to them, but also a measure of that independence of the outer world which is so sorely craved.  Men know that with the help they can get from ‘drowning their cares’ they can at any time slip away from the oppression of reality and find a refuge in a world of their own where painful feelings do not enter.

-Freud, Civilization and its Discontents

Rogue Leisure is a longtime colleague of The Immortal Goon.  He is currently, as he often does, wandering the Earth.  I received a transmission from him today with the following:

Refocus are we the sin or the locust
Descend on this world selves
We stand in our own dust
Lust and distrust
We swim in our own puss
The I or the us
Buy one more thing
Confused by the real and the dream
Happiness shows it’s seam
A thousand paths to peace
Beyond the parts lay the free
Sleeping hearts long for a song
Wagered souls
Watered down like the front lawn
In the moment we fully feel
I slipped on the peel
I sipped from the well
I’m alive again
How far I fell

The Willing Destruction of Self Belief in the Age of Reason

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