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WHY SCIENCE IS MAKING LIFE BORING...
I’m sorry to say it, but scrolling through this category makes me a little ashamed of being a teenager.
By the looks of things, most of us are intent on gabbling on about the news that (shock-horror) smoking, drinking and drugs can shorten your life-span. As if we haven’t been told enough already. Now, I’m not advocating a life that revolves around the next fix, cig, or flagon - but let’s at least enjoy ourselves. Without these three deadly sins, where would we be?
Where would art, music and our beloved literature be without drugs? How could the artist, musician or novelist survive without the odd hasty cigarette clenched between their troubled lips? Where would the weekends of stumbling, spewing and stupidity be without the litres of white cider and mysterious mixed spirits?
If we are all as clever as we would like to think, why is it that we still torture our bodies with these fatal excesses?
The answer is fun - doing stuff for the pure hell of it - it’s supposed to be what we (teenagers) live for. Now is the time to feast on rebellion, however petty, and believe ourselves to be invincible. So why waste it preaching to the unconvertible, when there’s plenty of sensible heads on aging shoulders to do that for us?
Let’s stop patronising each other, and just enjoy surviving. After all, good health is merely the slowest rate at which we can die!
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Yikes. (First of all, doing stuff for the "h***" of it is absolutely not a good reason) ... yes, artists and dramatists(etc.) who were also addicted to crack, opium, were alcoholics...well, if you look at their personal lives(apart from their amazing art), they were often wrecks.
p.s. Coke and alcohol don't make wonderful art. The person's talent does, and they probably dumbed themselves down from what --even more-- amazing artists they could have been.
where would we be without these three? Somewhere better than we are!
Where would art, music, and literature be? Why the exact same place, or close to it. No good art or writing has ever come out of drugs or drinking...
Where would artists be without this stuff? Better off than where they are! If they are troubled, they need to find a SOLUTION, not a narcotic.
I don't know about you but I want to get rid of weekends of "stumbling, spewing, and stupidity".
Your next question makes no sense. Are you admitting that these "fatal excesses" are a stupid bad idea? that's what it seems like, anyway.
And doing stuff for the pure he(ck) of it is NOT what teenagers live for. And you said it is "supposed to" be, but who told you that? Is it just what you glean from people's inane, immoral lifestyles?
OscarDonovan, you are not invincible, and you know it. Remember this when you are dying of lung cancer and then tell me you were still right... When you're dying from a drug overdose, will you really be glad you wasted your life in a stupor? No one knows when they're going to die. It could be tomorrow. You're not guaranteed old age, especially if you keep living like this.
If good health is merely the slowest rate at which we can die, wouldn't you rather have it? Wouldn't you rather be in good health and your right mind so that you can fully enjoy the life that you do have?
(This was in reply to a comment below)
Should we acclaim Al Capone for adding an element to Chicago culture/society?
Or what about the family life of these drugged artists/musicians? Obviously there was something troubling them...why else would they drown themselves in drugs and alcohol. Yes, they were still able to produce many amazing works of art/music, but gracious...drugs do nothing but dumb you down and space you out. Seriously. Real artists are ones who need NOTHING to "enhance" their perception of reality. True art is being in control of your senses, and through that control, creating a masterpiece.
