“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are
intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in
their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their
neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug
use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is
lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we
have lost each other.”
Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
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