You Want Me To Stop Doing What???????????

Digging into Last Call a little more on this peaceful morning with Maka and a cup of designer coffee.
Reading/learning about the whole Prohibition (with a capital P) thing just gets me thinking about the human condition.
When will we learn that humans need diversion?
Its amazing that Prohibition even happened and hopefully its failure resulted in a lesson learned.
But maybe not.
Billions of dollars have been spent on The War Against Drugs. You might as well spend the money on a movement to prevent bowel movements. It ain't gonna happen.
People need booze, people need drugs. In the case of booze it is partially related to the fact that it tastes good. But any seasoned drinker will admit the overriding factor is the pursuit of a buzz.
With drugs you don't even have to bother with taste. You get right to the buzz. More efficient and you don't have to take bathroom breaks.
I think about the human condition all the time. Probably because I am one. And although my knowledge base is limited, I am slow moving and largely unaware, I am still willing to bet that I am not the first human to ponder the human condition.
We are a restless, unhappy and uninformed species. We don't know if there is life after death but we do know that we don't want to die. I believe the fact that death is inevitable exists in our subconscious and has a bigger impact on our outlook than we think.
Especially when you consider that the overwhelming per centage of people work jobs that they hate for money that embarrasses them to live a life that is severely limited.
When you are young, you are optimistic. You know that you will succeed and live well. Nine times out of ten that proves to be untrue, and you end up walking around in a haze wondering how the hell this happened. Looking at the smallness and knowing that's the way its going to be until you shuffle of this mortal coil.
So why not have a drink? Smoke a joint. Hoover up a line. Do whatever the hell makes you feel better, whether that results in laughing or forgetting. Or both.
People who demonize booze and drugs are ignoring the human condition. Booze and drugs do not destroy humanity, humanity creates the need for booze and drugs.
And the loudmouths who preach against the evil are very often miserably flawed themselves. Or just plain miserable.
The more I consider this "living in the now" concept, the more sense it makes to me. Especially after Christopher Hitchens ripped away my subliminal safety blanket of a "maybe" afterlife.
Trying to create happiness in the now is a good approach. It doesn't work at work; you can pretend to be happy with a phony, cheery attitude but that is just bullshit.
So do whatever makes you happy on your own time and in your own way. And if having a drink or having thirteen drinks does it, do it. People who make judgements presume to know better; I think they are just projecting their own unhappiness on the judged.
Being human is a tenuous, a fragile and an unknowing thing. That is a tough way to live.
If we could free ourselves from this need to control others, if we could take a hard, honest look at what it means to be human and let go of all the phony agendas, maybe we could progress as a species.
But we live in denial. Denial of death, denial that life is disappointing for the great majority of humans, denial that booze and drugs make you feel better. Or make you forget or escape or laugh or air out your true self or contemplate.
We are such a strange species. A brain with amazing capacity reduced to pettiness in a life so very short.
I don't get it.