Re: virus: Fwd: Computer Addiction Is Coming On-line

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:07:19 -0500

Hi,

Tim Rhodes <proftim@speakeasy.org>
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Stay away from drugs and alcohol , Eric. You don't have a good enough understanding of the nature of addiction to avoid getting yourself in trouble.
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I'm willing to admit I don't understand it. I fail to see how any substance could *make* you act against your own preferences.[1] Is it that biological "over-rides" short-circuit your conscious voilition? If that is so, how do people *ever* recover? (that is, if ones conscious voilition is truly overriden, how is it possible to recover?)

I have gone drinking many times. I have failed to see what makes people drink alcohol. It certainly ain't the taste! Other than making me sick and woosy, it seems to have no effect -- which is to say, I'm not any "different" (others seem to change).

ERiC

[1] On this same topic, I found an interesting description of AUTHORITARIANISM -- the tiny, unnatural wire that reaches out to connect one person's brain with another person's muscles.