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June 19, 2014
Ayn Rand's Alice In Wonderland
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door,so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (`which certainly was not here before,’ said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words `DRINK ME’ beautifully printed on it in large letters.
Alice threw back her head and laughed a long, white-throated laugh.
“Is there any doubt,” she asked splendidly, “That drug addiction is an escape from an unbearable inner state – from a reality that one cannot deal with – from an atrophying mind one can never fully destroy? If Apollonian reason were unnatural to man, and Dionysian intuition brought him closer to nature and truth, the apostles of irrationality would not have to resort to drugs. Happy, self-confident men do not seek to get stoned. Drug addiction is the attempt to obliterate one’s consciousness, the quest for a deliberately-induced insanity. As such, it is so obscene and evil that any doubt about the moral character of its practitioners is itself an obscenity.”Alice adjusted the jade cuff at her bone-white wrist. She drank nothing and went on her way, secure in her choice. The Toast
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 19, 2014 5:56 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.