I Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life Alive
So I've been pretty obsessed with this song lately. Jon Foreman (lead of Switchfoot) descibes the rapid flourishing of the pharmaceutical companies as indicative of their claim, and our belief, that drugs bring abundant and true life, -on the market drugs and off the market drugs. I agree with him. This era, among other things, is the chemical era. The chemicals intially appear to help but eventually they enslave and cripple. I don't know when we started to believe that life shouldn't be painful or hard or depressing -at times, but whenever that was, we figured out chemicals could soften it, or mask it, or whatever. Once we've softened or masked it we don't need to work as hard at figuring out the reason for the pain or struggle. We can get rid of the problem by numbing ourselves to it. Alcohol used to be the old numbing agent, but that has become easy for people to identify as a problem. The chemicals our good doctors prescribe...