Rumors
The new rumor: somebody I know is doing coke. I don't know who is it, but that is the little thing going around.
I am not scandalized by the use of drugs. True, I get angry and righteously so at the mere mention of drugs as recreation, but that is because of the country from where I come. Drugs equal loss of civility, destruction of society, violence, death.
Perhaps I am overreacting.
At any rate, living in a society that identifies drug companies among its biggest financial successes, and where the issue, as Time Magazine put it the other day, was not whether to give drugs to kids but how many, the use of unregulated drugs ought to come as a logical conclusion.
As a matter of fact, I wonder what is more pernicious for society: a big drug company keeping everybody happy on drugs for depression and ADD, or the shady underground dealer that furnishes everybody with the recreational drug of their choice.
The big corporation, perhaps? It is making money for everybody, the politicians, the doctors that prescribe it, the local pharmacies that sell it; however, the corporation is nevertheless reinforcing the chemical dependency of this society, and despite that it has got a moral sanction, it is approved and well received.
The poor sap that sells illegal drugs? No money, no prospects, is shunned, and, unless we talk about the top dogs, will most likely end badly because of its activity. In a jail, somewhere, and if and when they go out, their doctor will prescribe them Prozac for that depression that will surely come with the knowledge that they were working for the wrong guy.