Marijuana VS. Television
Each are a vortex. Each are massively entertaining until you realize one day that you have just wasted a year of your life doing almost nothing for yourself.
Curiously, though, one is stigmatized in our culture. If someone asks you what you did last night, and you say, "I watched the game"--even if that someone hates football, it's pretty much all good. Conversely, if you say, "Oh, I got high and--" oh! they didn't even hear about what you did, just that you got high.
When you cop to smoking weed it is pretty dependably a divided response. Either they will laugh like a fucking idiot stoner and give you the sly eyes, like, "yah dog," like they know too!, like they're in on your dirty little secret, OR!
They will politely say, "ohhhhh, hmmm, how innnnnteressssssting" as if somehow they now have a revelation as to why you do not (and have not ever) made any sense to them. Then they will proceed to tell you what they think about pot, what their experiences have been, etc, etc.
RARE is the person who doesn't have issues with it. Why is this? What is it about altering your head-space that freaks our whole culture out?
Could it be that chaos would errupt if everyone realized their deepest potential? Would people stop going to work?! (!)
If that is the fear, then we are a faith-less, mal-educated nation. For I believe that if everyone were to realize their divinity-within, then surely Divinity would handle things. No?
In the final analysis, it is simply this: Marijuana, like television, is a habit forming, dependably distracting way of consuming free time. Both have brought enormous amounts of pleasure and light to our lives. Both have the profound ability to replace the open expanse of your limitless mind with desireable attachments to the illusions of reality.
And even though it's all good, our time here is limited. It is important to do the things we came here to do.
Curiously, though, one is stigmatized in our culture. If someone asks you what you did last night, and you say, "I watched the game"--even if that someone hates football, it's pretty much all good. Conversely, if you say, "Oh, I got high and--" oh! they didn't even hear about what you did, just that you got high.
When you cop to smoking weed it is pretty dependably a divided response. Either they will laugh like a fucking idiot stoner and give you the sly eyes, like, "yah dog," like they know too!, like they're in on your dirty little secret, OR!
They will politely say, "ohhhhh, hmmm, how innnnnteressssssting" as if somehow they now have a revelation as to why you do not (and have not ever) made any sense to them. Then they will proceed to tell you what they think about pot, what their experiences have been, etc, etc.
RARE is the person who doesn't have issues with it. Why is this? What is it about altering your head-space that freaks our whole culture out?
Could it be that chaos would errupt if everyone realized their deepest potential? Would people stop going to work?! (!)
If that is the fear, then we are a faith-less, mal-educated nation. For I believe that if everyone were to realize their divinity-within, then surely Divinity would handle things. No?
In the final analysis, it is simply this: Marijuana, like television, is a habit forming, dependably distracting way of consuming free time. Both have brought enormous amounts of pleasure and light to our lives. Both have the profound ability to replace the open expanse of your limitless mind with desireable attachments to the illusions of reality.
And even though it's all good, our time here is limited. It is important to do the things we came here to do.
posted by Just Greg at Friday, January 06, 2006
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