Sunday, September 9, 2012

Alcoholism

Alcohol releases the intellectual brakes on behavior. We need the emergency brake of meaning if we are to avoid a car crash.

It is the existential vacuum, the feeling that our lives are meaningless, that opens the door to alcohol and drug abuse.
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