@St_Rev Well, I’m still baffled, so you may be right! Quite likely the anti-drug actors are hopelessly confused about their own motivations.
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@St_Rev Or, just to multiply hypotheses, being anti-drug isn’t about drugs at all, and a blanket law wouldn’t accomplish the real agenda.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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@St_Rev But, the most obvious “real agenda” would be justifying arbitrary police powers, and ambiguity could only help with that.#baffled3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness ...rationalistic path, like a donkey up a minaret. It's starting to obstruct the original goal, but the donkey can't get down.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Meaningness ...infrastructure. Something like that. They can't unlearn what they've learned to be.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev Hypothesis of that flavor: bureaucracy in charge of classifying drugs as illegal obstructs blanket illegality to preserve itself.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Meaningness Right, the scientistic model founded in measurement (chemical assays etc.) complicates & elaborates itself.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@St_Rev with a vested interest in preserving the one-at-a-time model. And since anti-drug apparatus is not about drugs, no opposing interest
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@Meaningness A bureacracy is a machine for generating bureaucracy. Automated sacralization, the liturgy inscribes itself.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Meaningness Previous tweet keeps phasing in and out of meaning for me. Usually means it's either good or stupid.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes - 5 more replies
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