Unmedicated

It is quite entertaining to think about how half of the population, or maybe even three-fourths… it could even be up to ninety percent, frankly, but however chopped up and divided our majority comes medicated.

Oh heavens to the few that go through each day without a drug of choice! When was the last time you woke up by the dawn and stared out without any beverage to warm?

The day continues without nicotine, caffeine, vodka or sweets and perhaps then you’d stop this listing and insist, well, maybe it’s 100% because some drugs don’t necessarily need ingestion. Just open up a tab and access alter-consciousness.

That’s the essence of a drug. Most of them are about shrinking consciousness, shrinking self-awareness and loathing so you can laugh with the karaoke. To the few psychonauts negotiating the price for some DMT guidance in the thick of the Amazon, well, such breaking of a mind sears a stamp of insanity unfamiliar anyway.

For even though insanity is in vogue, everywhere, it’s about the frequency. Jabbing about secret societies only works for a select few, but even then the doorstopper monologues you save and throw about, in an attempt to form some ground in our mutual groundlessness, well, better to read the room for personal profit, maybe. Even if most of modernity is dashed about in bits of insanity.

Already enough altered thought circulates and we’ll view it perfectly normal to pull up to the supermarket, debate which artificial colouring for sugar-pasted coated cookies. Million bucks for a concrete box --- or wait, what is a dollar anyway? You can talk about the DMT elves, but no elves are stocking up the aisle of multigrain breads to indulge in…

The medicated and unmedicated. One can wonder the division. And it’s not so strict, seeing you can switch whenever.

The medicated have decided, for now, that it’s all too much, whether base reality or thoughts. Though the unmedicated aren’t any different, anchored in their perceptions or potent dissociation. How we all filter. Or that 100% is true to the letter; a sure strategy to handle the rapidity through which the world, by decades, turns centuries. Motion sickness rediscovered through antigravity.

In the mean time, whenever spikes of alienation hit, do take inventory. It may be your substances, devices (or lack thereof) driving the discomfort…