If you've ever wondered what it would be like to live in a non-violent, drug- and alcohol-free country, you're in luck: It's possible.
In fact, it's possible to live in a non-violent, drug- and alcohol-free country, writes Zanna L'Ecuyer in the Daily Beast.
"The task of national and global peace work entails the dissolution of the collective trauma that accumulated in the collective subconscious of humanity throughout years of wars (chimurenga included), colonialism, and expulsion, treachery, and betrayal," she writes.
"After breaking through all those evolutionary layers, you suddenly emerge, in the depths of the body, into something where the old laws of the world no longer have power.
And you realize that their power was nothing but a huge collective suggestion'and an old habit.'" She goes on to explain that "everything that irritates us about others or a situation can lead us to an understanding of ourselves hence this is the high time to make lemonade from our social lemons.
Neither drugs, food, sex, entertainment nor media is a problem to focus or declare war on but stints to announce a rotting carcass.
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