Chapter 20 Section 1 Will drugs destroy America?

To understand America, You have to understand drugs. To understand the effects of drugs on the human mind, You'd better ask a psychologist. Alcoholics can be regarded as the archetype of addicts with a long history. People use alcohol to express their emotions and gather righteousness.Alcohol can make things happen, but it can also make things wrong and bad.When human beings are intoxicated in the colorful culture centered on wine, we ignore the essence of wine culture, which is the inherent paranoia of human nature, which is strengthened and charged by a certain external chemical substance.

When the era entered the 20th century, with the development of modern medical science and technology, drugs have flooded human beings with alcohol-centered addicts crazily, confusedly, and unrestrainedly. Drugs are almost ubiquitous in modern American life.The technology kingdom of the United States is also a drug kingdom, and the degree of exposure of its people to drugs has almost reached the level that everyone can be poisoned.Among the American mental patients I have seen, 95% have a history of drug abuse, and drugs have long accumulated in the blood of Americans over the years.The pro-democracy activists who called for "total Westernization" obviously did not understand the extent of drug intrusion in American life.

Drugs corrupt people, and drugs make people crazy.A country full of drugs is naturally a country full of addicts.After understanding the huge influence of drugs on the human mind, it is not difficult for us to understand the irrationality and selfishness shown in this country full of addicts when it expands human paranoid tendencies disorderly. When I got to Manhattan, I knew a lot more about drugs than before. Because, nearly every patient tells me his or her drug story. So, I, a Chinese psychologist in Manhattan, want to reveal the drug inside story of Manhattan to you. "You can find drugs in any corner of the United States, did you know?" Jed, whose belly was as round as a big balloon, gasped, "To prevent myself from buying drugs, I can only walk with my head down. Because as long as I look up, I can see who is a drug dealer. You ordinary people can't see it."

"What are the characteristics of drug dealers?" I, an ordinary person, still want to learn more. "It's gut feeling, like a starving person has a special feeling for food." "So does that mean that running out of drugs is like dying?" "Without drugs, it is like entering hell; with drugs, you will immediately enter heaven." "So can it be said that people living in hell like to use drugs the most, because once they use drugs, they will immediately jump out of hell and enter heaven." "Hey, what heaven, that's heaven in hell." Jed actually said such a philosophical remark.

"It seems that you have recognized the essence of drugs." "I don't know what the essence is, but what should I say about this thing? I can't tell!" Each of Jed's answers seemed to make sense, but it seemed a bit inexplicable.What exactly are drugs? The Opium War in the 19th century almost brought about the subjugation of China. The Chinese suffered a lot from drugs and suffered all the grievances and shame brought about by drugs.However, time and space have moved to the 21st century, and the drugs that devastated the Chinese people are reappearing in every corner of Manhattan and spreading everywhere. Is this the so-called karma in Buddhism?

The first epidemic of drugs was during the Vietnam War. American soldiers who traveled across the ocean learned to rely on drugs to maintain their survival in the depressing tropical jungles of Vietnam.When the war ended, the soldiers who came back from the hail of bullets found that what awaited them was not flowers and wine, but the disgust and condemnation of the war by the Chinese people.As a result, the depressed hearts of the soldiers once again found the original intoxication and catharsis in drugs. Vietnam War Syndrome Says When I was in Chicago for my psychotherapy internship, I was accidentally arranged at the Chicago Veteran's Hospital.My mentor, Dr. Leon Kaufman, said to me: "Have you prepared yourself mentally? What you have to face is the veterans of the Vietnam War who were enemies of the CCP. They all have a deep hatred for communism. Now, they But they need a psychiatrist from a communist country to treat their psychological disorders that may have originated from the Vietnam War. I don’t know what the outcome of such a confrontation will be, you have to take care of yourself.”

The ideological battle of mankind has driven many people crazy in history.But after the madness returns to calm, when everyone faces their real life, all things about doctrine naturally become secondary.When a veteran of the Vietnam War and a psychiatrist from a communist country sat face to face in a small consulting room, the color of doctrine faded away, leaving only two hearts colliding naked. Tom is a Vietnam War veteran suffering from severe post-traumatic syndrome. He has been suffering from nightmares for more than 20 years after the Vietnam War. The veterans hospital has become Tom's half home, but Tom's illness has never been cured.When Tom was in my therapy session, he looked like a dying tree, lifeless.

"Tom, what are we talking about?" The beginning of psychotherapy is always vague. "Talking about what? I don't know what to talk about." Tom faced my question without dying. "I noticed that you suffer from post-traumatic syndrome. You must have many nightmares." "Nightmare, my whole life has been a nightmare. Living in terror every day during the Vietnam War, that's when I started doing drugs." "After taking drugs, your fear disappeared?" "It's not disappearing, it's numbness." "numbness?" "Yes, killing numbness."

Tom sitting in front of me was indeed numb. His answers seemed to be recorded from a cold machine.I was thinking about how to wake up his numbness, and suddenly, I had an idea.So I asked, "Tom, you say you kill like hell, but have you ever killed women and children?" "Killed." Tom's voice began to tremble. "How many have you killed? Can you tell me the number." Tom looked up at me, his eyes filled with tears.He choked up and wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything, and soon two lines of hot tears ran down his cheeks, and Tom's whole body began to tremble.Amidst Tom's whimpering, I seemed to hear the vietnamese souls who died under Tom's hands crying all around.I don't know how long it took for Tom to stop crying. He looked up at me, and I saw the spark of life in his eyes.

Tom let out a long breath and sighed: "We were deceived by the US government. When we arrived in Vietnam, we thought we were fighting the regular army of the Communist Party, but where there is no regular army, what we face all day long Hate Vietnamese people. Even if there was a gun battle, the so-called regular Communist Party troops were not much different from ordinary people. Later, in order to protect ourselves, we had to kill civilians indiscriminately.” "So you numb yourself with drugs." "Yes, after the use of drugs, there are not so many taboos about shooting and killing people. Later, killing became a game, a numb pleasure. We used drugs to make ourselves in the jungles of Vietnam, becoming Killer Demon King."

"Does it feel like you're not killing someone after taking drugs?" I wanted to understand the effect of drugs on soldiers' killing behavior. "Yes, after using drugs, the whole world seems to have become another world. It is an inhuman world, and people don't have to take any responsibility." During the Vietnam War, whether the use of drugs by American soldiers was a self-help behavior of the soldiers or a deliberate arrangement by the US government is a great historical mystery.Another patient of mine, Jamie, told me that he started using drugs before he joined the military. Later, he felt so bad that drugs were harmful to others, so he wanted to change to a drug-free environment.He thought of enlisting in the army, but only after joining the army did he realize that the prevalence of drugs in the US military was even worse than that on the market.