Our Take On: Advertising In Capitalism
Posted on | March 7, 2010 | No Comments
The goal of advertising in capitalism is to get the consumer to see their sense of their own value or worth as a person as being inseparable from acquiring their product. While this is obviously far more difficult to acheive with some products than others, nevertheless, it remains the goal of everything from sugary breakfast cereal to penile malfunction medication.
Our Take On: History’s Deliberate Frame Of Reference
Posted on | March 4, 2010 | No Comments
Hitler once said in reference to the Armenian Genocide by the hands of the Turks in 1915, that when Germany wins the war, it will be Germans who will be writing history and no one will speak of what they had planned for the Jews.
“Our strength is our quickness and our brutality. Genghis Khan had millions of women and children hunted down and killed, deliberately and with a gay heart. History sees in him only the great founder of States. What the weak Western European civilization alleges about me, does not matter. I have given the order—and will have everyone shot who utters but one word of criticism—that the aim of {translator: this} war does not consist in reaching certain {translator: geographical} lines, but in the enemies’ physical elimination. Thus, for the time being only in the east, I put ready my Death’s Head units, with the order to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of the Polish race or language. Only thus will we gain the living space that we need. Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?” – Adolph Hitler
Until 2008, Nelson Mandela was not even allowed into the United States without special permission from the Secretary of State because he was on a terrorist list.
Yeah, that quiet, soft spoken nice old man who was played by Morgan Freeman in Invictus and is second only to Mohandas Gandhi on many people’s list of inspirational leaders.
A Terrorist? Yeah, as in the same kind of terrorist that we associate with Osama Bin Laden.
Nelson Mandela by any definition of terrorist was a terrorist. If you call a terrorist someone who uses violence against non-military targets in an attempt to destabilize a government in order to see his political goals achieved…then he is a terrorist.
But no one calls Nelson Mandela a terrorist today. Nelson Mandela has been the recipient of over 250 awards including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
Can you even imagine what kind of twilight zone twist the world would have to take for Osama Bin Laden to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
And you know why Nelson Mandela isn’t called a terrorist today? Mandela won.
You know why you don’t hear anyone talking about the Armenian genocide?
Turkey won.
Within Turkey it is illegal to even use the word genocide in reference to what the “Young Turk” government of the Ottoman Empire did to the Armenians. In fact, it is considered an act of treason to do so.
Consider this, the Turks have NEVER taught any child educated in Turkey one single sentence about what the Turkish government did to the Armenians.
Hitler was absolutely correct. It cannot be understated that history is always written by the victor.
Nelson Mandela was not only the leader of and co-founder the African National Congress’s armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe translated as “Spear of the Nation but Mandela admitted that back in the day that ANC violated the human rights of many people while they were trying to overthrow the apartheid government in South Africa and harshly criticized members of the ANC that tried to pull a Turkey and have their actions removed from official historical record.
Doesn’t rewriting history come with the spoils of victory?
Apparently not if you have integrity.
My point is, whoever is called a freedom fighter today could’ve been a terrorist yesterday and might’ve still been a villain in the eyes of history had they not prevailed.
One man’s freedom fighter is someone else’s terrorist.
And the reason is simple.
Most people don’t view the world on principle. We don’t take ownership of our values and stand by them. Values are more like guideposts that we pull out of our wallets when its convenient for us to do so.
Americans don’t say our friends are anyone who supports human rights and the democratic process for all its citizens.
We say our friends are whoever aids us in achieving whatever are our interests today, right now, this minute.
There is this saying that in the in the animal kingdom, whenever an animal sees another animal it asks itself “does it feed me or does it eat me?” Well one could say that in the political kingdom everyone asks themselves, “does this person promote my interests or are they against my interests”.
That is how we decide who are our allies and who aren’t. It has nothing to do with a values.
Saddam Hussein was an ally of the United States while he was using mustard gas on the ethnic Kurds in his country.
Our government didn’t criticize him at the time because Saddam was promoting our interest in warring with Iran, who had proven they were against our interest by overthrowing the Shah of Iran and installing this Ayatollah Khomeini wackjob that we didn’t like.
Apartheid is considered wrong today everyone agrees to that.
But it isn’t wrong on principle. Its wrong because the Apartheidists lost.
But had apartheid still been installed in South Africa during 9-11 and had the South African government been heavily involved in assisting the Bush administration’s war on terror, our government would’ve praised the South African government’s experience in rooting out the terrorist in their own country and said that experience had proven itself to have been an invaluable resource in the success and future successes of rooting out Al-Qaeda.
No one is going to say that apartheid is wrong if it isn’t in our political interest to do so.
Hell, the reason Mandela was captured and ended up spending 27 years in prison was because the CIA tipped off the South African government as to where he was staying and what disguise he was wearing and no doubt the agent that had collected that information was a black agent. Who else could’ve gotten close enough to have learned that information?
America is all about freedom and human rights in speeches and propaganda but we were assisting the South African government oppress a racial majority and bar that majority from participating in the democratic process, violating their human rights and even labeled those fighting for the right of that majority to participate in the democratic process terrorists and put them on a terrorist list.
How more un-American can you get than that? Terrorist is the word we use to call people fighting for things that are against our interest even if they are fighting for the values and rights that we believe in.
See that is why people think the world is so complicated. It’s not complicated. We make things complicated.
The rightness or wrongness of actions doesn’t get murky unless you determine what is right or wrong based on what they can do for you or not.
Tags: Adolph Hitler > Armenian Genocide > Nelson Mandela > Terrorist
Smithsonian says No to OJ’s Acquittal Suit
Posted on | March 3, 2010 | No Comments
I wonder if this is going to be another argument over “historical interest”?
The Smithsonian Institution, America’s repository of historical artifacts has rejected an offer to add the suit that OJ Simpson wore when he was acquitted of killing his wife to their collection.
They said that it was inappropriate for them.
Well one place we know it won’t be inappropriate to put on display will be the Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, D.C.
Hell, they have the actual car that Ted Bundy killed several of his victims in on display. If they can say yes to an actual murder scene how can they say no to the suit that a murderer was wearing when he beat the rap?
You know I think this whole historical interest thing is a little too broad.
What can’t be displayed under of reason of historical interest?
I can’t think of anything. Why not a used condom of Charles Manson? Wait, he didn’t use condoms.
How about the glass eye of Henry Lee Lucas or a lampshade that Albert Fish made out of human skin when he lived in his mother’s house? I am sure there is some handy craftsmanship on that thing. He probably put a lot of time and effort into making that.
In my opinion OJ’s attorney Ronald P. Slates doesn’t seem to be plugged into the absurdity of the situation he is in right now.
I am not surprised that he isn’t. He does represent Simpson. That is absurd in-an-of-itself.
Slates actually suggested that maybe the University of Southern California would like to display the acquittal suit. Like USC is still proud of OJ Simpson. They were proud of him when he was staring in the Towering Inferno and Naked Gun. They were proud of him when he was inducted into the National Football League Hall of Fame but I am sure they aren’t recruiting kids to come to USC today by reminding them that this was the school that OJ Simpson attended.
None of these kids know that OJ Simpson. The only OJ Simpson they know is the one that killed his wife and the waiter she was sleeping with.
Slates acts like OJ Simpson is serving time right now for trying to bring down apartheid.
OJ Simpson is in prison for threatening people who he believed weren’t paying him for items that they sold for him under the table so that he wouldn’t have to pay the Goldman’s punitive damages for killing their son.
Simpson is an embarrassment to the University of Southern California. Sure he was a great football player but that isn’t how he is remembered today. Today he is remembered for being a pretty shitty human being.
Like I said, Slates should call the Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, D.C. they will take anything.
Source: Smithsonian rejects OJ’s courtroom suit, Associated Press, March 2, 2010
Tags: Museum of Crime and Punishment > OJ Simpson > Smithsonian Institution > Ted Bundy
Aggressive Tectonics Rattle Chile
Posted on | March 2, 2010 | No Comments
To say that earthquakes are making a hell of a comeback this year would be an understatement.
On Tuesday, 12 January 2010 Haiti welcomed in the New Year with the worst earthquake they had experienced in 250 years.
But when you are talking about a country that has zero building codes they could’ve had an earthquake of a 2.5 and it would’ve did the same damage.
You could build a house out of legos in Haiti and someone would be living in it.
So far in Haiti there have been 230,000 reported dead, another 300,000 injured and another 1,000,000 homeless.
Then not to be outdone, six weeks later Chile has an earthquake 500 times more powerful than the one that struck Haiti.
The major difference is that at least Chile actually has an infrastructure built to withstand earthquakes.
I’m sorry.
I can’t believe I said that.
How arrogant of me.
Men can’t build anything that can withstand the earth moving.
It’s only arrogance that would even have you suggest that you could.
I mean maybe someday we will be able to make earthquake resistant buildings. It just won’t be us. Maybe it will be some 24th century version of us that go around talking about “the Prime Directive” but it certainly won’t be a 20th or 21st century version of us.
We can’t make something that can withstand the earth shaking anymore than we can develop a cork to prevent a volcano from erupting.
See that is the thing that people don’t get.
The Haitian earthquake came when stress deep in the earth that had been building for 250 years gave way.
That is what earthquakes are. The earth relieving stress. The earth only stopped sliding under the continent because the plate hit something else. Now stress is building as we speak for the next big jolt.
The Chilean people pretty much tried to perfect the art of earthquake resistant structures after the 1960 Valdivia earthquake which was the strongest earthquake in recorded history.
Known as Gran terremoto de Valdivia it registered 9.5 on the Richter scale and didn’t stop shaking for 11 minutes!
11 straight minutes of shaking earth is enough to not only shake you out of your home but to shake the sanity out of your head.
As far as I am concerned, unless men can figure out a way to put buildings on roller-skates, the best we can hope for is to make something that doesn’t come crashing down before we have time to jump for our lives.
So far the Chilean government has confirmed 723 dead, 540 of which died when a sewer system collapsed.
Its places like these where you would think that it would be in the interest of public health to outlaw the building of any structure higher than 2 stories. The worst thing that can happen to anyone jumping out of a second story window is that you break your arm.
So if Haiti was hit with a grand maul earthquake because the Haitian slaves that led a revolt against their French masters made a deal with Satan in order to get their freedom, who can Chile blame for their latest unfortunate?
Well Chile doesn’t have the luxury of blaming any of this on personification of evil. They just have geography to blame.
Chile is located on what is now known as the Ring of fire. And no that isn’t the title of another sequel to the Lord of the Rings. The Ring of Fire is where you find not only 90% of the world’s earthquakes but also 80% of the world’s strongest earthquakes.
Oh yeah how could I forgot to mention it is also where you find 75 % of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes.
You don’t need Satan when you have Aggressive Tectonics.
Source: Death toll in Chile quake reaches 723, CNN, March 1, 2010
The Last Stand of the White Worm
Posted on | March 2, 2010 | No Comments
Yuck.
The only disease to ever be wiped off the face of the earth has been smallpox.
Doctors hope that within a few years Guinea worm will be the second.
Ever heard of Guinea worm? No? Then you are blessed and didn’t even know it did you?
Because chances are if you haven’t heard of the Guinea worm that’s because you aren’t living anywhere near where people are being infected by the Guinea worm. That’s the second reason to consider yourself blessed.
Guinea worm, also known as dracunculiasis, which in Latin means “little dragons”, is contracted by drinking water that has the Guinea worm larvae in it.
And where are the last remnants of this disease still holding on?
Africa. Where else? The only places on earth that people still contract the Guinea worm are Ghana, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, and Sudan.
Scratch. Scratch. Scratch. Scratch. Sratch.
Each one of those places has been scratched off my “to visit” list.
Once the larvae enter into the body, they mate then they can grow up to 3 feet in length. Then when they decide to leave the body, almost a year later, this is where the “little dragon” part comes into play, they excrete some kind of burning acid like substance that burns the human tissue in order to make an opening and then literally thousands of larvae come spewing out all over in every direction as they exit propelled from the built up pressure.
Have you thrown up in your mouth yet?
Well what I am about to write next should top you off.
These worms typically exit from their hosts legs and arms because they burrow themselves next to long bones or joints of the extremities that is where the female bury themselves in order to have a large area to have their babies, but apparently they have been known to emerge from the head, sexual organs and even the eyes.
Arrrraraggghhhh!!!!!
Apparently the only way they get these things out of the body is to grab the end of one while it is exposed and wind it around a small stick – like twisting spaghetti on a fork until all 3 feet of the worm comes out. The idea for the traditional symbol of medicine, the snake wrapped around a pole, is thought by many to have come from the treatment of the Guinea worm.
I don’t see the traditional symbol of medicine being a stick covered in smallpox.
Oh yeah did I mention that it’s painful as well?
The worm lives inside of the body for up to a year before it is ready to birth itself and be set off into the world and make something of itself.
That is enough to make you want to faint.
You know people keep making these George Romero zombie movies about outbreaks of diseases that turn people into homicidal cannibals, why not step outside that for a second and make a movie about a pandemic of super Guinea worms that gestate and grow within hours instead of months?
Now that idea has blockbuster written all over it.
Smallpox was the first and only disease to be eradicated from the earth and they are saying that the Guinea worm might be next.
Well I should hope so. How smallpox jumped ahead of a disease where thousands of worms can erupt out of someone’s eyeball I am not sure.
In the 20th century alone smallpox killed an estimate 300 – 500 million people.
Guinea worm didn’t kill anyone directly, but I am sure that any disease that can make thousands of worms come flying out of someone’s head or eyes without warning has taken its fair share of lives by way of heart attack.
Let’s not get hung up on technicalities.
Source: Medical assault on the three-foot Guinea worm of Sudan, telegraph.co.uk, February 17, 2010
Tags: dracunculiasis > Ethiopia > Ghana > Guinea worm > Mali > Niger > smallpox > Sudan
Olympic Athletes Nearly Ran Out of Condoms
Posted on | March 2, 2010 | No Comments
I have been known to hold the opinion that there is no way to stop human beings from having sex in space.
Why? It’s simple. People will have sex in space just to say that they did.
Where people have sex has nothing to do with sex at all. Sex is just how we christen the ship so to speak.
Well if people will have sex in Space just to say that they did, why not have sex in the Olympic village just to say that you did?
The Olympics. The only place in the world were you can go from “Who are you again?” to a rock God just on your address every 4 years?
99% of the people who go to the Olympics haven’t even heard of these people until they get there.
Millions tune in to the Olympics. How many people are going to tune into the World 4 man bobsled championships next week?
Crickets. Crickets.
Yeah that is what I thought. Maybe you can catch it on ESPN 5 if ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN “nothing else is on” aren’t showing bowling or Poker.
It’s the sex that motivates 4 Jamaicans who have never seen snow or ice in their lives to give bobsledding a try.
Believe me. It isn’t the glory.
Ghana’s ‘Snow Leopard’ Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong admitted he only came to the Olympics with one goal… not to come in last.
So why would he have travelled 4,000 miles one way just to not come in last?
Health officials in Vancouver gave out 100,000 free condoms to the 7,000 athletes and officials at the 2010 winter games when it started. That amounted to roughly 14 condoms per person. But almost two weeks into it those supplies were coming dangerously close to being depleted. An emergency shipment of condoms had to be flown in. Although free condoms have been handed out at the Olympics since 1992 this is the first time that they have ever run out.
Now I know in Boxing, it isn’t at all uncommon for fighters to abstain from sex while they are in training because they say sex taps their strength.
Evidently maintaining strength isn’t as much of a concern someone that is going downhill on a pair of skis or sweeping the ice in front of heavy polished blue hone granite stone.
No, when you come to the Winter Olympics you come to christen the ships.
We’re on to you now.
Source: Emergency shipment of condoms headed to Olympic athletes, Vancouver Now, February 24, 201o
King Tut’s Family Tree Was a Pole
Posted on | March 2, 2010 | No Comments
A recent study on King Tut revealed the obvious.
Tutankhamen was a genetically screwed up kid. DNA testing pointed to incestuous parentage as the root of Tut’s health woes.
Tutankhamen was born with an abnormally large head, cleft palette, a club foot, avascular bone necrosis in his good foot and he walked with a cane which explains the 130 walking sticks found in Tutankhamen’s tomb.
Although the Egyptians believed in an afterlife, in their afterlife no one expected everything to be better than it was here.
Like our concept of the afterlife there isn’t any more suffering or pain. Diseases are a thing of the past. You might be blind on earth but no one expects that when you die you will be blind in the afterlife as well.
One of the first things you expect to do after your papers are processed and they let you in to heaven is to make your way down to the clinic to get your body fixed. If you had a bum back or knees those will be fixed. Erectile dysfunction..Fixed.
I mean how can this be the right heaven if you are still old crippled there too? You mean to tell me if I die at 92 in this life I have to spend the rest of eternity as a 92 year old in that life as well?
If that is the case we would all be better to die at 19 when we were young, beautiful and everything worked.
In ancient Egypt, it wasn’t uncommon for Pharaohs to marry their sisters; which, at least genetically speaking doesn’t help matters.
I know that a thing like a Cleft palette isn’t synonymous with inbreeding, but like I said, inbreeding can’t help.
For that matter hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease are also not synonymous with inbreeding but there is no coincidence that the more inbreeding you have the more Tay Sachs and hemophilia you’re going to find.
Put it like this, anything that can happen to any of us only quadruples when the family tree doesn’t have many branches.
Although there are some warrior pharaohs in Egypt’s history, had Tut lived longer he wasn’t destined to have been one of them.
By any stretch of the imagination he was a special needs child.
King Tut’s father was Akhenaton, the Pharaoh who tried rather unsuccessfully to make all of Egypt abandon the pantheon of Gods and just worship one… him. Well Tut’s mother was Akhenaton’s biological sister.
Yuck.
And yes that is an open ended yuck. It really doesn’t matter what she looked like. If she is his sister then that gets a yuck.
Besides, if you are so shallow as to think that the physical attractiveness of the sister is something that should weigh into the conversation, she was no doubt born of the same incestuous couplings as Tut was so there ya go. I don’t think any Egyptian royalty was much of a catch.
Source: King Tut DNA testing sheds light on how he lived and died, Christian Science Monitor, February 17, 2010
Sh!t I Like: Black Dynamite
Posted on | February 28, 2010 | No Comments
I watched Black Dynamite this past week and I swear I laughed every 45 seconds for the entire two hours.
I love this movie so much that I literallywatch it twice back to back. The first time I watched it I came home from work sat down and watched it. Just as it was finishing, my wife came home from work I made her sit down and watch it.
I told her that Black Dynamite was going to be the only thing I am going to want to talk about tonight so if she didn’t watch it we wouldn’t have anything to say to each other. It was either that or I was going to have to tell her everything that happened in it so the choice was hers.
Yeah I can be persuasive like that.
The next day, still laughing mind you, I took my copy on DVD to my parent’s house after my wife and I met them for dinner and I left my copy there for them to watch.
The next morning mother sent me an email listing like 7 of her favorite scenes.
At first I was a little worried that she might not think it was as funny as I did. The reason being is that when blaxploitation films were in their heyday my parents were all about them. I was afraid they wouldn’t be able to see the humor in since they didnt see how bad they were the first time around.
Black Dynamite was written by Michael Jai White who also plays Black Dynamite, a former CIA agent, vietnam vet, kung fu master, urban vigilante and pimp who goes on a murderous rampage while investigating a conspiracy surrounding his brother’s death.
Hilarious.
I met Michael Jai White at the Motor City Comic Con in 2008. Having never met him before in my life I approached him at his table and immediately went into this huge speil about how disappointed I was that his scene in Kill Bill didn’t make it to the theater. I told him that the was ONLY reason I saw Kill Bill was because he was in the trailer.
In fact I went a lot further than that.
I went on about how I thought there was a huge conspiracy in Hollywood to use brothers such as himself for the trailer just to get us black folks into the theaters only to find out once we get there that we are nowhere in the film.
The more agitated I acted like I was getting with the whole conspiracy idea the more he laughed.
I even tried to goad him into calling Quentin Tarantino a racist, as I was insinuating (totally jokingly) that Tarantino probably did this intentionally just because he was black.
I had him cracking up. His publicist on the other hand or whoever this guy was standing only an earshot away from us didn’t like where my jokes were going and asked me to leave.
In his publisits/manager’s defense I could’ve been anyone. I could’ve been working for TMZ and trying to get some beef going between him and Tarantino for all he knew.
Still Michael Jai White knew I was joking and was a good sport about it.
So when I saw Black Dynamite was written by White, it was immediately clear why it was so hilarious. He gets it. There are jokes within jokes on top of jokes in this film. Some are subtle. Some hit you in the face. Some you might not even catch the first time. Its the type of movie that has cult classic written all over it.
On a scale of 1 to 5, I would give Black Dynamite a 4.8. I would recommend it to anyone who like satire films. Black Dynamite is like Naked Gun except instead of making fun of pop culture in general, black Dynamite pretty much sticks to just the clichés of blaxploitation films. Don’t worry if you don’t get all of the references. You don’t have to be familiar with them to still enjoy the film. Black Dynamite is deliberately made to look and feel like a really bad film. If you can understand that much you will be laughing as much as I did.
Since the chances of getting my copy back from my parents is slim to none I went on Amazon.com today and bought a copy on Blu-Ray, the original score and the motion picture soundtrack. I will be set to reload in 3-5 business days.
Can you dig it?
Ugandan Pastor Treats Congregation To Gay Porn
Posted on | February 27, 2010 | No Comments
A Ugandan Pastor Reverend Ssempa showed homosexual pornography in his church last Sunday in an attempt to bolster support for a piece of anti-homosexual legislation that would impose the death penalty for some offenders.
Homoerotic images were showed to 700 people during church service. The Reverend defended his choice to show the images to the congregation as necessary to educate people “about what homosexuals do”.
Really? They had to actually look at gay porn in order to know what they do?
Considering that some of them can find the face of Christ in a faded area of paint behind a refrigerator the last thing I would think that the self-righteous Christian would lack is a healthy imagination.
The legislation he supports would impose life imprisonment for anyone caught having gay sex and the death penalty for repeat offenders.
Damn, what exactly could you show homosexuals doing that would persuade an objective person that the death penalty is the appropriate punishment for being gay?
If you showed me a flock of sheep and told me that one of those sheep is actually a wolf I know where I would I look first.
As far as I am concerned, the sheep that brags the most about how sheepish he is is most likely the wolf.
The wolf is the one who is going to be bombastic about what he would do if he ever got his hands on the wolf.
It’s all a ploy to get the other sheep to take their suspicious eyes off of him.
Reverend Fred Phelps is probably the gayest person in America by that standard.
Reverend Seempa might be the gayest person in sub-Saharan Africa.
Of course that guy can’t be the wolf right? He can’t stop going on and on about how much he hate wolves!
Real sheep don’t typically think of themselves that intensely. It’s just who they are.
The guy in college that was always going on about how much he loved his lovely black sistas and how he wouldn’t think of dating a white girl is the one married to Sally today.
Reverend Ssempa has been telling his congregation that homosexuals have been trying to recruit children in his country.
Again, how exactly does one recruit someone into homosexuality?
Do they hand out brochures? Do they give out complimentary passes to figure skating try-outs at mixed martial arts competitions or Monster Truck shows?
And I am sure if you asked Reverend Seempa he would say that he could never be recruited because his will is so strong. He is only looking out for the young kids who can be easily persuaded.
Again, I don’t know about that. There was never a point in my life where I could’ve been persuaded to the homosexual lifestyle with a sparkler and a Lady Gaga CD.
I think the wolf has shown his tail.
Gay activists attack Ugandan preacher’s porn slideshow, guardian.co.uk, February 18, 2010
A Prison Colony For Masturbators
Posted on | February 27, 2010 | No Comments
Researchers are saying that there is now scientific evidence that shows that the male brain can produce the same high just by looking at a curvy woman as it would if he was drinking alcohol or taking drugs.
The same exact parts of the brain that light up when someone is on cocaine are the same part of the brain that light up when they see a curvaceous female figure.
Again, thanks for the research Mr. Scientist but I could’ve told you that.
Let me save you the trouble of applying for another grant to figure this one out too.
The same exact parts of the brain light up when a gay man sees an attractive man that would light up in his head if he was on cocaine as well.
This is because the parts of the brain that are lighting up are the sections that are associated with feelings of reward.
Get it? Reward. Why wouldn’t they?
This is why although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association doesn’t recognize porn addiction many in the field are pushing that they soon do.
“Even non-sex addicts will show brain reactions on PET scans while viewing pornography similar to cocaine addicts looking at images of people doing cocaine,” Dr. Mary Anne Layden told United States senators. “This material is potent, addictive and permanently implanted in the brain.”
It isn’t just porn. All it takes is for men to look at women, period.
So if you can get addicted to drugs then you can also get addicted to looking at women.
Again, you needed a grant and a PET scan to tell you that?
Obviously just because you smoke a joint doesn’t make you addicted to marijuana. Likewise, just because you look at women doesn’t make you addicted to looking at women. Addiction is not about the act.
It is a problem within the individual.
People who have addictive personalities can become addicted to anything and quite often move from one thing to another. They get treated for drug addiction and start gambling. They get treated for gambling and they get into Church. Yes, you can get addicted to Jesus too.
When you are addicted to something you are incapable of controlling yourself. Addiction is fucked up regardless of what you are addicted to.
So with this said, I wasn’t surprised to read that there are now prison colonies for masturbators.
You might call them treatment centers but once you read about these places you will understand why I call them prison colonies.
A generation of kids have now been raised with having access to the internet for their entire lives.
In fact they can’t imagine a world without the internet. And if you have access to the internet then you also have access to porn.
Long gone are the days where finding porn was a rite of passage to adolescence like it was when I was 12.
And so if looking at porn stimulates the same areas of the brain as would doing cocaine then connect the dots.
We essentially have kids that have been doing cocaine for as long as they can remember.
One kid that was admitted into one of these prison colonies for masturbators was admitted by his parents after suffering dehydration from jerking off so much during a weekend binge.
He actually went through withdrawal symptoms that were so bad that he was unable to stop crying or punching the floor just because he couldn’t masturbate every 15 or 20 minutes.
In these places people keep such a close eye on you that you can’t dip off to jerk off. Some kids get so desperate they grope each other just so they can file that away in memory so they can jerk off to it later.
People, wake up. It’s not the drugs. It’s not the porn. We are one hedonistic species of monkey offshoot.
Source: Curvy women ‘like a drug to male brain’ Ananova, February 25, 2010
Too Much of a Bad Thing: Internet Lures Kids into Porn Addiction, dallasobserver, February 18, 2010
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