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Do you drink alcohol? Why or why not?

Lately I’ve been thinking it is pushed so much to keep people complacent. When I was an avid drinker I didn’t really care what I was accomplishing or doing or why was going on in the world. Long as I had my buzz. Now I rarely drink and feel a lot better and more aggravated at what is going on in this world.

I wonder if media and gov push alcohol so much to keep people complacent. I mean even liquor stores were deemed essential stores. Beer commercials for every sport (I don’t watch) and every movie or show usually has people drinking, sometimes casually but lots of times to excess and it’s seen as the epitome of fun.

Do you drink alcohol? Why or why not? Lately I’ve been thinking it is pushed so much to keep people complacent. When I was an avid drinker I didn’t really care what I was accomplishing or doing or why was going on in the world. Long as I had my buzz. Now I rarely drink and feel a lot better and more aggravated at what is going on in this world. I wonder if media and gov push alcohol so much to keep people complacent. I mean even liquor stores were deemed essential stores. Beer commercials for every sport (I don’t watch) and every movie or show usually has people drinking, sometimes casually but lots of times to excess and it’s seen as the epitome of fun.

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[–] • 4 pts (edited )

I quit for a long time, and compared to when I was drinking daily it was like my mind was on fire with activity. Drunks can't think adequately in comparison to how they'd be doing sober, we're talking for weeks and months, not just while drunk.

I also didn't drink at all over the lockdown and have finally gotten back into it a bit because I'm starving for being out and talking to people. A little bit of alcohol is fine from time to time.

There's not very much reason to drink constantly and you're probably just depressed.

[–] • 3 pts

Yeah when I was heavy drinking I was always foggy headed, trouble forming sentences, felt super depressed. Nothing good ever came out of it. If there was one thing I could change it’s that I wish I would have never started. But I’m good now. Just a long time in between of wasted youth and health.