Jan 19
Dr. Peele discusses the Temperance based theology informing 12 Step ideology, and the “disease” view of addictive behaviors, as uniquely American fetishes.
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“He starts out almost making sense, but then he switches metaphores, zig zagging between temperance, illegal drugs, AA, and inner-city addictions lumping it all together into one giant mess.”
Addiction is a complex phenomena – encompassing social, cultural, psychological, emotional, existential, economic, historical and discursive dimensions. Too complex for you?
BTW: “Temperance” means the nineteenth century Puritan Christian orthodoxy that dictated moral norms.
Try to keep up Joe.
He starts out almost making sense, but then he switches metaphores, zig zagging between temperance, illegal drugs, AA, and inner-city addictions lumping it all together into one giant mess.
AA is for alcoholics (people who cannot control their drinking)
Go to a strange city and you want to cop drugs? Head for Martin Luther King drive. (sad but true)
Temperance? Been there – done that.
AA has a SOLUTION for alcoholics.
What SOLUTIONS does Peele have to offer?
The only thing that is lacking is the fact that American culture is so pervasive all over the rest of the western (and to a certain extent eastern) societies…
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Where you been mate? I haven’t heard of you for a year when I was Manic remember? LOL