]]>Juls,
Both gays and straights may recover from substance addiction via AVRT®. There is no burden of change for anyone in AVRT-based recovery other than to cease and forever desist from the use of alcohol and hedonic drugs.
Once securely abstinent, formerly addicted people often make major changes on account of their improved moral reasoning, comprehension, and emotional stability. The Abstinence Commitment Effect is a return to one’s original identity and character, before sliding into the degeneracy of substance addiction. One of the most significant changes independently recovered people experience is in the social behavior, especially with regard to choice of friends and associates. By staying away from bad company, such as found in recovery groups and other social ghettos, it is possible to discover one’s better identity, unburdened by the stigma or labels of group identity.
Jack Trimpey
Beth,
It would be good of you to explain a little more about your disappointment. For example, why would you be disappointed to learn that substance abuse is a direct cause of anti-family attitudes, anti-social behavior, and liberal politics? Why would you be disappointed to learn that the author of the most important book you’ve ever read is deeply pro-family, and that AVRT® is the only family-centered approach to addiction recovery in existence? Have you never noticed the relationship between substance abuse and liberalism? Or, how about the relationship between anti-family attitudes and liberalism?
One more question, while we’re at it: What is your plan for the future use of alcohol and other drugs? Are you going to use again in this lifetime, or are you not? I’m a little concerned about your claim on being “sober.”
Jack Trimpey
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]]>Neil,
Political orientation is basically how we see ourselves in the world at large. What do we value, how do we define the good and the bad, how do we want our lives to be governed and by whom? And so on. Substance abuse has a radical, immediate effect on our perceptions of everything, starting with our own family members and our original family values. Substance abuse is self-forgiving, in that anything that feels so good cannot really be wrong, or at least very wrong. Our views of social issues, starting with the procurement of alcohol and other hedonic drugs, the taxation of it, of politicians who condemn or protect it, of the responsibilities and expectations of substance abusers themselves —all are strongly affected by our first and subsequent doses of those substances. Relations with authority are radically altered so that moral authority in itself is regarded as an evil, something to be resented and feared, challenged and subverted. Your comment about common decency is an example of this.
People’s political and philosophical views change throughout life, so some substance abusers go through a liberal phase and later return to traditional family values. Others who get absorbed into the social ghetto of recoveryism, i.e., recovery groups, retain their juvenile, resentful attitudes and engage nightly in discourse with the low-life of their communities, refusing to render moral judgment on anything other than their own insignificant lives. Judgment itself is thrown out the window as if to judge others is akin to a violation of their rights to be judgment-free.
Although we might find many apparent exeptions to this connections, evidence abounds all around us that mass, runaway addiction to alcohol and other drugs is a scourge upon the human family, while at the same time a promise of “Happy days are here again,” as sung at FDR’s coronation following the repeal of Prohibition.
Our perceptions of the entire world and all ideas related to it are inverted by the regression to the primitive caused by mind-blowing addictive pleasures.
Jack Trimpey
Keep spreading the message.
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Neither do I think that watching Real Time changes people. However, those who watch it without retching are in the bag, not only politically, but in the street sense as well. The revolution came, was won by the Beast, and no one noticed.
Jack Trimpey
God Bless you Jack
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I’m not sure my observations about the addiction/liberalism connection amounts to obsession, although I am quite interested in this matter. I have smoked pot, drank alcohol, popped speed pills, and engaged in the high life associated with those vices. Newt and Rush also used, and have since renounced that indulgence. Like all of my cohorts in substance abuse, I was a liberal during those years, sounding exactly like the asses of the left today. However, the effect of abstinence over the years has been quite civilizing, allowing me to see in the rear view mirror things I did not anticipate. People are subject to major changes in character following their basic assumptions about substance abuse.
There is nothing radical about the simple observation that hedonic drugs breed anti-family attitudes and antisocial behavior, including reflexive enmity with authority of all kinds, especially any moral authority which would impinge on one’s degeneracy. The anti-family nature of liberalism is obvious, despite defensive arguments to the contrary. In essence, liberalism is a natural function of the healthy, human body, a raw mentality of self-indulgence combined with emotional appeals for self-justification.
Conservatism is a euphemism for maturity, the adaptation one makes at the age of majority to his animal nature so that he/she may create a family fit for reproduction and parentage. Liberalism is a euphemism for childhood and adolescence, an aggregate of anti-family, anti-authority, often anti-social attitudes which amount to rejection of one’s origins and self-justification based upon anti-family, liberal culture. The place of substance abuse in the societal breakdown of the family is obvious and tragic.
Of course there are outstanding exceptions to my thesis here, but there is a rich vein to be explored in this matter.
Jack Trimpey