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Our Yearning For Collapse

There is a collective and pervasive sense among us that we are heading for a worldwide collapse of catastrophic proportions. More significant is that many, secretly or openly, look forward to such a societal shakeup coming sooner than later. Haruki Murakami stated, “Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.” Why do we wish this? Take a moment to ask yourself a simple question; “Do I, on some level, secretly look forward to our society breaking apart?” If the answer is yes, we must acknowledge just how far down the rabbit hole we are. At a minimum, we need to acknowledge something is terribly wrong. There is an ocean of reasons to believe we are past the breaking point and our society is heading for disaster; none so telling and fact based as our global debt crisis which proves beyond doubt we are living a false life. In spending so much money, we have sold our children’s future in order to keep up our standard of living and our personal longevity. That debt has been pushed to such a limit it is an over-tight piano string that has to snap. Our global overspending is currently far in excess of 250 trillion dollars and climbing like a rocket-ship. That number is so unfathomable and so confusing it is enough to scare the hell out of us. As it should. Worse still, it is not the aging who will pay the ultimate price-tag, even though we created the monster. It is the younger generations who will be required to pick up the pieces when it all comes crashing down. It is already well established and accepted that our children will not live as high a life

Marc Legare as we have. The massive debt, along with all the other resources we mismanaged and squandered, makes their future bleak. We are collectively culpable for eating up riches and being willing to pay any price to delay short term hardships. The real reason we are guilty is that we will not repay what we borrowed for our comfort, safety, and security. That is the main reason why we all want it to come apart soon, because on some level we know it ought to come down on our selfish heads, not the innocent heads of those who come after us. How in the world do you repay over 250 trillion dollars? It was not so long ago we held the belief that with “a little elbow grease,” we could pay off our debts. Not this time, the debt is too immense. If you are one of the many people who wish a massive correction would occur sooner than later, you are not alone. For our children’s sake, at least some of the suffering should fall on our shoulders instead of the entirety of it falling on theirs. In the words of Thomas Paine, “I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”

A Distant View

Nature, science, business, and human need are four potential answers about where crystal methamphetamine comes from and why people use the harmful drug, according to a Moose Jaw health promotion practitioner. “Knowing the answer to such a complicated question is not in order to assign blame, but rather to help us understand how we arrived where we are … ,” said Rom Jukes with the Moose Jaw Family Wellness Centre. “For our future to be an improvement of the present, reflection is valuable. Our past has, for multiple reasons, resulted in millions worldwide using crystal meth to their own destruction.” While criminals are one reason crystal meth is available, crime is a consequence rather than the source. Addressing the criminal elements is necessary but not sufficient to help people suffering, he continued. Criminals did not invent methamphetamines, nor did they introduce them to the world on a mass scale. Instead, the drug was introduced through mainstream channels over the centuries. Working on behalf of the Moose Jaw Crystal Meth Strategy Committee, Jukes recently put together a report looking at the history of crystal meth and where it originated.

Nature

The natural world is the first place to look when considering the genesis of crystal meth, Jukes said. Flowers such as Khat in Africa, Coca in South America, or the Betel nut in India have been used by local cultures in traditional medicines and recreational use for centuries. However, this drug is ultimately derived from the shrub Ephedra, which is common across Central Asia. “The Western European world was late to the game in cultivation and usage of natural stimulants. Few people were exposed to these substances until expanding trade routes brought exotic items like tea and coffee into their experience,” he continued.

Science

In 1662, English physician Henry Stubbe published The Indian Nectar, where he declared that chocolate “Doth more speedily and readily refresh and invigorate the bodily strength more than any other sustenance whatever.” Jukes pointed out that books such as Stubbe’s applied the emerging Enlightenment scientific worldview onto the natural world. Stubbe also hoped to express the medical value of chocolate while distinguishing fact from fiction. “In a European world increasingly committed to the overthrow of dogmatic assumption, these new substances from across the world were yet another frontier of exploration,” Jukes said. Europeans also began looking more at pure cocaine, which they isolated and extracted from coca leaves in 1860.

Business

By the 1880s, products such as Coca-Cola flooded the market and were advertised as “valuable brain tonic” and an “intellectual beverage.” Scientists created methyl-amphetamine from the plant base ephedrine in 1919, which became a commercial product by the 1930s. German pharmaceutical company Temmler later began selling Pervitin, which was a patented product designed to compete with the new amphetamine product Dexedrine in America. “The initial response to these innovations was overwhelmingly positive. Mass distribution of drugs like Pervitin began for soldiers, manufacturing workers, students, and artists,” Jukes said, noting that prescriptions of methamphetamines in the United States peaked at 31 million in 1967 since doctors were attempting to treat conditions such as depression and obesity.

Human need

Many people can feel disconnected from where they are and where they want to be and can feel dislocated emotionally and socially, he continued. During 2015-16 in the U.S., the most common prescription for 11.4 per cent of adults aged 20 to 59 was anti-depressants, and for 6.2 per cent of adolescents aged 12 to 19 it was central nervous system stimulants. Fundamental to substance abuse is the need of the person, said Jukes. Last year a United Nations agency reported that roughly 269 million people worldwide used illicit drugs in 2018, while more than 35 million met the criteria for having a drug use disorder. For most of these people, this does not escalate into a debilitating disorder but does for a disproportionate number of meth users. Two years ago, the total number of U.S. adults reporting meth use (0.5 per cent) was comparable to non-medical pharmaceutical users (0.6 per cent) — but 38 per cent of people reported being daily or near-daily users of meth compared to seven per cent of non-medical pharmaceutical users. “Methamphetamine may be started by a person to meet a particular need, but it quickly becomes the only answer to every problem … ,” added Jukes. “We likely will not find our answer (about where crystal meth came from) like a set of lost car keys, but every complicated problem is asking for a creative solution.”

Researcher attempts to determine crystal meth’s origins and why it’s used

Jason G. Antonio - Moose Jaw Express

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