hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
On the piss
"In findings that will add to public alarm about teenage drinking, researchers have found that many more youths are ending up in hospital due to alcohol abuse than previous studies might have suggested.The latest study, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, used data from Victorian hospital emergency rooms and compared it with other research that relied on people reporting how much they drink.
The emergency room data showed that between 1999-2000 and 2005-06, there were "rapid increases in alcohol presentation rates" in people aged between 16 and 24. Their symptoms included alcohol dependence, mental and behavioural disorder due to alcohol, alcohol poisoning, alcoholic gastritis and alcoholic liver cirrhosis."
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Such findings come as little surprise to anyone who steps out of their house on a friday or a Saturday night in a built up area. But while they are interesting the real interest needs to be kindled around the cause of why the new generations of Australians, aged 15-30, are generally piss heads to the degree that some emergency staff in hospitals are asking themselves why they bother rocking up to a long weekend night at work when all they do is carry sick bags around and nurse drunks.
This current affairs report that was aired last night on ABC illustrates that our current rate of alcohol consumption should be taken as a warning that aspects of our current social design are askew, and actually raises some interesting questions. So why are we becoming increasingly pissed and violent? A couple of important causes suggest themselves when things are looked at through nihilist lenses.
Firstly, our society supports the view that intense individual gratification by whatever means, and often at the short term hindrance of others, benefits everyone in the end: an idea which is simply absurd.
Secondly, our society currently encourages extreme hedonism as opposed to a balanced amount of self discipline.
Lastly, we are encouraging less and less natural social consensus with aggressive multiculturalism and one-size-fits-all mentalities for the whole nation like pluralism which is resulting in a population with less common ideals and interests so that, in the words of one guilty man in his late 20's interviewed on the Four Corners report linked above, if you want to socialise and meet people in this day and age you have to get pissed and act like a monkey.