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mercredi 2 septembre 2020

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Depuis la tempête cette nuit.

Addiction and Connection

Geraldine Bow

Very interesting.

Best thing I've read in ages ... "Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction.

Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment.

We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need.

The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things not people. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that."
~ Johann Hari

Il y a lieu d'éliminer beaucoup de choses qui ont été déversées en nous pendant l'enfance et l'adolescence...

Il s'agit de déjouer tous les mensonges, toutes impasses dans lesquelles on peut s'enfermer...
L'écriture est indissociable de ce travail que j'ai eu à faire sur moi-même...
C'est un œil qui regarde en lui-même...
Tant que ce travail n'a pas été fait, on ne peut pas parler d'une liberté de pensée...
(…) Cette voix, elle parle en chacun de nous, elle est silencieuse, mais parfois elle parle si fort que c'est comme si je l'entendais prononcée à côté de moi...
On se trouve forcément très seul... Ce travail ne peut se faire que dans la solitude...
Et cette solitude elle fait peur, elle n'est pas facile à vivre...

Charles JULIET
Propos saisis au fil d'une conférence par Yves Le Truédicet Posté par Maela 