When you feel an addiction start to come over you, start to consume you, take over your life, lead you down the wrong path, down a path of self-destruction - grab hold of yourself, give yourself a shake, a real good shake...and assuming you can - without help - grab hold of your addiction, and throw it by the wayside where it belongs, like a poisonous snake, before it can strike you again. If it's disguised as candy, stay away from the candy shop, because beneath the candy is poison, and quickly or slowly, if you keep going back to the candy shop, you're going back for more poison...and that can only have one eventual outcome...death and/or self-destruction...one is a real death...the other is a living death...to you and the people who love you...it basically amounts to the same thing...- dgb, April 7th, 2008.
In memory of Kim: You were a pretty little 15 year old with a smile that could light up a room, and give life to a party, when I met you through your sister back about 1980-81. I was fresh out of university, about 26 years old and spent the next 11 years living with your sister, having two children with her, 5 or 6 good years, 5 or 6 bad years. We all spent too much time at the bars in those early days, partying, consuming too much alcohol, but you got into something much worse. Around 25 if I have my years right you got into 'crack'...When you were around 30 to 35, I saw you for one of the last times, briefly at Sunnybrook...By then you had serious internal organ problems...I knew you had to radically change your lifestyle or this 'disease' was going to get you...I don't judge you, I don't blame you, I just wish I could have said something better to help you. I didn't. Whatever I said was not good enough to change your path. You went back to your neighborhood, back to your network of friends, back to your lifestyle...and about 4 years later (between 35 and 39), I cringed and cried to hear my son describe the way you died in a Midland? hospital. You leave behind you two young kids with serious unfinished issues in their closet, trying to sort out what you did and didn't teach them. Your crack-candy was poison. Too much alcohol is poison. Too much gambling is poison...
Stay away from all candy shops that feed you poison. Casinos feed you poison disguised as candy. Go to the wrong website and you will get poison disguised as candy. Take the wrong medication and you will get poision disguised as candy. Listen to the wrong politician and you will get poison disguised as candy. The worst of our culture, our society, wants to sell us poison disguised as candy. That's what 'narcissistic capitalism' is - capitalism that plays upon our narcissism to sell poison disguised as candy.
The seller makes and markets the candy and the buyer takes the poison. The employer takes the candy and the employee takes the poison. Or the employee takes the candy and the employer takes the poison...Or the union takes the candy and both the employer and the employee take the poison. Or the court delivers the verdict and either the single mother or the single father takes the poison -- more often the father in my opinion these days. Or the politicians take the candy -- overloaded pensions -- while our middle class senior citizens take the poison -- all of their hard-earned -- and taxed -- pension money has been spent and/or kept by the politicians...Or the campaigning politicians promise us the moon -- promise us candy -- and later deliver nothing, little -- or poison. Or China, Mexico and the 'Global Corporations' that use China and Mexico take the candy while our homegrown manufacturing companies in Canada and the U.S.A. -- and all the people who used to work in them -- take the poison (lost jobs and careers through closed down plants that moved to China or Mexico or anywhere else in the world with 'dirt-cheap, sweatshop labor'.
This is 'Global, Narcissistic Capitalism' in the 21st century.
It's all about taking a lot and delivering little.
It's all about marketing nutrition, pleasure, and/or candy -- and delivering empty promises and/or poison.
- dgb, April 7th, 2008, updated April 11th, 2008, and May 30th 2008.
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