“Alcoholic” is a meaningless, stigmatizing term serving moneyed interests

August 12, 2022|Richard Nikoley||

Short intro here, and the video is only 11 minutes.

  1. Alcoholic and alcoholism are abjectly bullshit terms that serve a nefarious purpose
  2. There’s an objective, fundamental, helpful, measured and scaled way to describe adverse issues with alcohol consumption
  3. This requires zero clinical diagnoses, no doctors, armies of counselors and helpers, or anything else except your own choice
  4. Misuse of alcohol is not a fucking disease. Every damn sip is 100% choice. Problems are 100% your fault
  5. Clinical diagnosis is “required” to enable a whole industry of abject parasites
  6. You no more have a propensity to abuse your alcohol consumption than are you guilty of sins against God at birth

So those are the high points. Take it all in in 11 minutes.

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2 Comments

  1. Ed Dudley on August 13, 2022 at 00:09

    I agree completely. Plus there is the moral superiority factor: ‘They are an alcoholic, and I’m not.’



  2. Raymond Raupers Jr on August 18, 2022 at 02:00

    I’m aptly characterized as straight edge anarchist, no tobacco, no alcohol, no drugs whatsoever not even an aspirin.

    I quit using alcohol when hangovers hurt so much it eliminated any incentive to drink. I’ve never been interested in the label “social drinker” as in my opinion moderate drinking was an “abuse” of alcohol. I drank in search of truth much like the notions of Jack Kerouac.

    In focused misanthropy being able to drink a massive quantity of alcohol while deconstructing an off duty cop’s ego, was great fun and knowing they deserved the discomfort of retooling, made it obligatory. It was the same with so-called school teachers, and other cult members of ostensible mainstream institutions. The human race is so full of shit, it begs to be picked apart mentally. Especially when I was available as heroically drunk as Mick Farren ever wanted to be. Eventually I found my search for truth almost exclusively directed within. And so straight edge became my final methodology.

    Tobacco, alcohol, drugs, all these actions I abandoned with instantaneous decisions. I’m not advocating anything to anyone. My true will dictates what I do. A man whose actions are at odds with his true will is wasting his strength. I can see Richard’s strength renewed. The fact he is expressing his process as just a matter of decision, warms my heart. You are unlimited.

    sacred-texts.com/oto/lib77.htm

    Ray