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    1. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

      1/ Notes on addicts and addictions: Everyone seems to be an addict today. I wouldn’t be surprised if oxygen consumption becomes an addiction. Much as I admire Jung, I’m sceptical about the AA model. It seems to have a streak of Puritanism about it.

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      Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

      2/ Shame is tied up with addiction. If you feel shame after doing something, it’s quite likely to be diminishing you in some way. Shame is anticipated social condemnation, so addicts must care excessively about what other people think. No surprise celebs are addicts.

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        2. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          3/ But is a group where you confess to other people are good device to remove shame? Actually, it creates the conditions, in my view, where shame is nursed and cultivated. This is why addicts seem strangely proud of being addicts, and never getting better.

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        3. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          4/ Certain elements of AA, such as apologising and making amends, are actually likely to increase shameful feelings. I hate people apologising to me. It’s a form of indirect manipulation. Let’s save the apologies & forgiveness for God.

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        4. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          5/ John Dolan notes the Puritanical addiction/addict model is all tied up with a pathologising and mythologising of drugs, sex, and sin (notice that “Sex Addiction” is a thing now). These people indulge, but they get off on fessing up to being an “addict” in “recovery”.

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        5. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          6/ Everyone gathers round, sometimes on daytime TV, for the public shame/confession session. Nobody says, “Actually, I like drugs. I prefer drugs to this inane society and if you could invent version of cocaine that didn’t melt my nose bridge...I’d take it.”

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        6. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          7/ Addiction follows the same model as public confessions to “racism” or “sexism” or virtue signalling. Shame, apology...of course the public doesn’t forgive—only God forgives. So you’re back in the cycle of indulgence and shame and confession (that you get off on, secretly).

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        7. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          8/ I don’t know if it’ll ever be possible to invent a drug that would whack alcoholism or depression on the head, but there’s a resistance in the addiction model to any drug, because these drugs aren’t chemicals for these people. They’re religious symbols (Dolan again).

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        8. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          9/ There’s an idea that taking a drug to beat depression is “cheating”. But if it works without talking...who cares. We tend to moralise diseases we can’t treat (see Sontag on TB as being somewhow poetic or sexual). Once we can treat, it’s mundane. Point is Nietzschean.

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        9. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          10/ People want to be “addicts” to feel vaguely alivei nour society. It’s, again, parallel to seeking out a victim identity. And it crops up in Fight Club (vicarious thrill of joining cancer “survivor” circles, AA; cancer itself also being moralised because we can’t cure 100%).

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        10. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          11/ “Addiction” is tied into civilisation. In order to function in our societies we need to suppress a lot moneky behaviours, particular the desire to fuck, kill, and throw shit about the place. Booze, carbs, and so on help us depress ourselves enough to wear suits & smile.

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        11. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          12/ You can cultivate drugs towards higher experiences, but most don’t. The struggle against “addiction” is a pseudo-struggle against civilisation itself, which needs us drugged. Insofar as there’s a way out of “addictions” or negative behaviour patterns...this is my view...

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        12. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          13/ The way out is Dr Johnson meets Nietzsche. If you want out, you have to go out completely and existentiallly. Will Self described a gangster he knew who used to smoke. “When did you stop?” asked Self. “1960s. I read the Doll report in the papers. Stopped next day.”

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        13. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          14/ Self describes the villain’s approach as existential. A bit like a Jean-Paul Belmondo film. “Read that smoking is linked to cancer. [Spit ciggie out] Stop smoking. Move forward. Do the job.” Assess what is good for your body, cut out the bad. No moralising. No question.

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        14. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          15/ This is also the Dr Johnson approach, which holds that giving up completely is easier than moderation. “I’m not doing that any more.” People sometimes describe epiphanies likes this when they feel they’ve smoked every cigarette they had to smoke. They had 10k in them.

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        15. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          16/ Anyway, the Nietzsche-Johnson approach is the opposite of cultivating a moralised identity as an “addict” where you secretly get off on the shame-confession dynamic of falling off the wagon. You dirty little Puritans.

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        16. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jun 25

          17/ But it’s also possible that, really, people need their vices & that the vices are in them. “Self-improvement” is a very American* democratic notion. The other vaguely Nietzschean angle is to accept people need these things to be what they are, even if the results are fatal.

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