Reading List: Picking Poisons Via Weirdly Immovable Social Vice Preferences, And Other Awful Cocktail Party Talking Points
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Darlings! It’s Friday, the North American Continent is in various states of deep freeze and you’ve almost made it through the week! Well done! So let’s get to some long reads, why don’t we? Olga Khazan, America’s Favorite Poison (The Atlantic) - I joked at work the other day that my personality is meeting dogs, going to yoga, and not drinking. And in my day-to-day life, I have to avoid the “have a hammer, everything’s a nail syndrome,” in that not everyone on this planet has an issue with alcohol the way I do. That being said, I’ve also seen how, despite the ravages that alcohol can wreck on bodies, families, and our society, the liquid escapes the moral and existential judgement put on other vices like cannabis. And when you voice that observation? You get looked at sideways. As this piece points out, “Pushing for, say, higher alcohol taxes gets you treated like an uptight school marm. Or worse, a neo-prohibitionist.” So whether you’re a normal who can have one glass of champagne and call it a day, or like me and needing to leave the drinking to the normals so that I can, you know, have a full, complete and fulfilling life, this examination of alcohol’s curiously elevated status is worth a read. (H/t to the numerous readers who sent this in.)
Reading List: Picking Poisons Via Weirdly Immovable Social Vice Preferences, And Other Awful Cocktail Party Talking Points
Reading List: Picking Poisons Via Weirdly…
Reading List: Picking Poisons Via Weirdly Immovable Social Vice Preferences, And Other Awful Cocktail Party Talking Points
Darlings! It’s Friday, the North American Continent is in various states of deep freeze and you’ve almost made it through the week! Well done! So let’s get to some long reads, why don’t we? Olga Khazan, America’s Favorite Poison (The Atlantic) - I joked at work the other day that my personality is meeting dogs, going to yoga, and not drinking. And in my day-to-day life, I have to avoid the “have a hammer, everything’s a nail syndrome,” in that not everyone on this planet has an issue with alcohol the way I do. That being said, I’ve also seen how, despite the ravages that alcohol can wreck on bodies, families, and our society, the liquid escapes the moral and existential judgement put on other vices like cannabis. And when you voice that observation? You get looked at sideways. As this piece points out, “Pushing for, say, higher alcohol taxes gets you treated like an uptight school marm. Or worse, a neo-prohibitionist.” So whether you’re a normal who can have one glass of champagne and call it a day, or like me and needing to leave the drinking to the normals so that I can, you know, have a full, complete and fulfilling life, this examination of alcohol’s curiously elevated status is worth a read. (H/t to the numerous readers who sent this in.)