Archive for January 4th, 2002


This is just perfection!

Addiction… my views

In a post from yesterday I made the observation

Addiction is the relying use of some ‘thing’ called Xto make some other ‘thing’ called Y ‘go away’. It doesn’t fix Y, and it doesn’t give any positive results. Further, it probably in the long run makes Y worse and probably adds other new and different Ys in the process. Finally, it is an addiction if any use of ‘X’ causes reliance to return.

Here now is the follow-up