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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion.
If you're 20 and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you're 40 and not a conservative... good for you. You didn't sell yourself out.
Caffeine, Energy Drinks, Ritalin, Adderall and most chemical stimulants throw your system into brainwave state of alert/crisis by stopping your brain from producing your more intuitive & daydream evoking brainwaves (these brainwaves are what give you those all-important feelings of well-being). While eliminating these brainwaves gives you that instant rush of energy at first, you'll notice that that "rush" soon dissolves into more of a generalized stress, anxiety and dis-ease.
Unfortunately many stimulants over-stimulate your system and throw you out of the optimal thinking/problem solving brainwave state right into a manic/anxiety brainwave state. You also may have noticed that while you may get a lot of tasks done at first while you're on these stimulants - WHAT you're getting done may not be the wisest choices. These choices often become motivated by your anxiety and stress; and drive you to "make mountains out of molehills" and then spend the rest of your day battling these made up issues. You are working hard but not smart, because the stimulants have suppressed your creative, intuitive source of wisdom in order to achieve the mild panic state you experience as "energy".
If you believe in the power of your thoughts to attract positive or negative experiences into your life, then you understand how destructive it can be to use stimulants that suppress the very brainwaves that offer you a sense of peace and well-being. That's what caffeine has been clinically proven to do! Furthermore, Ritalin and Adderall are even worse in this regard. Our frantic "get ahead at all costs" society does not seem to realize that getting tasks done more quickly by sacrificing one's sense of well being, may not be as effective as we once thought.
The other notable downside of chemical stimulants is that they tend to stay in your system for many hours longer than you want them to, resulting in restlessness, irritability, inability to unwind at the end of the day, and insomnia at night.
Finally, many of these stimulants have been shown again and again in studies to be bad for your heart, because they force your heart rate to accelerate beyond normal functioning levels causing unnecessary stress and wear & tear on your body's most precious organ.
What the internet does is, re-tribalise people. You're born, and then all this stuff happens, and then you die, or maybe you die kinda earlier. But all through your life in the old days people spent time learning and their personalities were composites of their knowledge, and knowledge meant developing wisdom. But nowadays, when everything is on Wiki or Google there's no need to learn anything and people talk with visaul symbols like ( ~_o) and >:3 and it becomes a whole sort of general mish mash of being able to communicate feelings very very quickly and never having to travel to meet someone properly, and you lose that sense of individuality and isolation that comes from solace and reading.
Instead you have
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and the info-seeking part of your personality gets completely battered on internet info-pollen, to the point where you become an infant who finds a role and then doesn't have a personality anymore, because everything is Google.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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