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by juleiie7 hours ago |
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upvoteby Dilettante_6 hours ago|
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If you were so smart, you'd find a way to be happy that includes your intellect.

Curbing the suffering by numbing yourself is seeking comfort in retreating to the local optimum instead of continuing to search for a better one.

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upvoteby florkbork6 hours ago|
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Pfft.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2799035/

Smart people drink and smoke more; not less, potentially to self sooth/deal with the oppressive reality they find themselves in.

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upvoteby juleiie6 hours ago|
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That certainly must be very comfortable opinion to have. People truly love their illusions that allow to smoothly glance over giant uncomfortable spikes of reality under the balancing line of life. Otherwise we wouldn’t be able to function at all in this circus. We would just lie down in cave paralysed by dread, ending the homo sapiens brand of intelligence the moment it started
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upvoteby condis6 hours ago|
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You could hit your head against a brick wall repeatedly. Tries that yet?
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upvoteby forlorn_mammoth5 hours ago|
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actually, yes.

I also tried banging it on my desk. The desk was better, because you get a bit of a drum sound and you cause yourself less damage.

Also, the desk is closer. Brick walls require gettting up and walking somewhere first.

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upvoteby juleiie6 hours ago|
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Weed is much less painful and the effect is the same
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upvoteby catapart5 hours ago|
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a bit too simplistic for my tastes. I wouldn't call being inebriated the same as being dumb; but I would absolutely agree that being inebriated is way more fun, easy, and fulfilling than being sober. I would choose being inebriated over being sober almost every time, regardless of the mechanism of inebriation.

that said, inebriation is pathetic in measure of performance against being sober. there's nothing I can get done inebriated that I can't get done better, faster, and with more focus when I'm sober. with the minor caveat of non-mind-altering drugs like caffeine and sugar being super helpful for a sober mind, any actual inebriate (rather than just a 'drug') only slows things down.

so, personally, I just see them as two modes that any particular person can engage, regardless of how "smart" or "dumb" someone might consider them (whatever that means).

where I always find myself frustrated is that I have my best ideas and make my best connections when I'm inebriated, but I have my best structuralization and conceptions of those ideas only when I'm sober. so I have to remember the inebriated stuff to be able to craft it when sober. which is honestly kind of a drag to capture while inebriated and kind of a slog to read back while sober.

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