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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 7:32 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

Ch 8, p. 126

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Not So “Happy Days”: The War-Born Generation — Fifties, Eisenhower Generation The media tends to focus on the big trends and to ignore or miss the lesser ones. The way our recent history was portrayed, you would think that just because there was a huge number of babies born in the decade and a half after World-War-Two’s end — the much discussed Baby- Boomer Generation — that there were no babies born during the War ... almost as if every man in America was overseas fighting or that, when home on leave or whatever, they simply would not or could not conceive! Marinated in the Womb of War Fears However, of course these ridiculous notions are not true, so there is a pre–Baby-boomer Generation who happened to be born during or in the decade leading up to WWII, that is to say, between about 1925 and 1942. And the Yuppies were predominantly the sons and daughters of this — let us call it — Fifties Generation. Marinated in the womb with Great Depression and war fears and born around the time of the war, the Yuppies’ parents then had their formative adolescence and young adulthood during the Fifties. PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 126
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 8:36 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 126

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 126 It is interesting to notice that the same pattern of the younger generation being more adamant and radical than their parents, but in the same direction, plays out here like it did with the Sixties Generation and their WWII Gen parents. As mentioned, previously Sixties radicals has liberal parents. Similarly, 13th Generation/ Gen X radical reactionaries had conservative ordinary Republican parents ... and attempted to do them one better. This dynamic of a Fifties Gen/ Gen X alliance has been represented by the Gekko character in the movie Wall Street, played by the Fifties Generation character, Michael Douglas, whose protege, correctly enough, was played the by the yuppie-Generation Xer, Charlie Sheen.... Accurately cast, in that he was born 1965.2 Not So “Happy Days”: The War-Born Generation — Fifties, Eisenhower Generation
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 8:50 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 125

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Hence all these MAGAts — save Boebert and Gaetz,— are members of Gen X. Gen X/ the 13th Generation and are those born 1961 to 1981. Of the ones mentioned, they include Ted Cruz, born 1970; Jim Jordan, born 1964; Sarah Palin, born 1964; Marjorie Taylor Greene, born 1974; and Josh Hawley, born 1979. Other major reactionaries past and present are numbered among the ranks of 13th Generation/ Gen X, including Rand Paul, born 1963; Paul Ryan, born 1970; Ron DeSantis, born 1978; and Chris Christie, born 1962. Ron Paul, born 1935 and thus a member of the Fifties Generation, is a parent of Rand Paul, the Gen X Yuppie type, and this pairing demonstrates both the parentage of Gen X, as being the Fifties Gen, as well as the way that generation, Gen X, conformed to their Fifties Gen parents, not rebelling. Mostly, this pairing depicts the alliance we see predominantly on the Right — that between Fifties Gen and Gen Xers. The Fifties Generation, Strauss and Howe’s Silent Generation, are those born 1925 to 1942. Keep in mind this alliance of Gen X and the Fifties Generation and that the Fifties Gen are predominantly the parents of and are those who inculcated values into the 13th Generation/ Gen-X, along with Gen X’s subcategory of Yuppies 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 125
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 8:36 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 125

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 125 Fifties Generation members values manifest today in the difference between traditional Republicans — those called RINOs (Republicans in name only) by MAGAts — and the MAGAts or Trumpers themselves. These RINOs are folks like the Koch Brothers, Rupert Murdoch, Mitch McConnell, Ron Paul, and John McCain. They have been the ones behind the curtain — old-school Republicans, who have more of a World-War II Gen mindset. Whereas nearly all the folks fighting them and wanting to be even more reactionary and fascistic are the MAGAts/Trumpers, the reckless “wacky wabbits” of the Gen X/Yuppie/13th Generation. These include Trumpian MAGAts like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, and Josh Hawley. These latter have more of a Yuppie/Gen X mindset in being irrational, reactionary, and sarcastically obstructionist. Other major players in this drama are also Gen X/ 13th Gen, including Liz Cheney (born 1966) and Adam Kinzinger (born 1978). Lauren Boerbet, who is a Millennial, born 1986, and Matt Gaetz also a Millennial, barely, born 1982, are two, only, Millennials among the major Republican players. Hence all these MAGAts — save Boebert and Gaetz,— are members of Gen X. Gen X/ the 13th Generation and are those born 1961 to 1981.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:01 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 124

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Yuppies — Children of Fifties Generation Parents The values of the Yuppies are understandable, furthermore, in that they were the sons and daughters of a generation between the World-War- Two and Baby-Boomer Generations, who are rarely talked about. It is often said that the World War Two Generation — termed the G.I. Generation by Strauss and Howe and designating those born 1901 to 1924 — was followed by Boomers/Vietnam Gen, born 1943 to 1960, and that Generation X, the next generation, were the children of Boomers. Nothing could be further from the truth. The generation that followed the WWII Generation and the actual parents of Gen Xers were born 1925 to 1942 and came to adulthood during the somnolent Fifties, having most of their babies between 1961 and 1981. We might call this overlooked generation the Fifties Generation, or the Eisenhower-McCarthy Generation, or the Elvis Generation, or the Happy Days Generation ... a more cumbersome but more accurate term for them would be the War-Born Generation. They have been called the Silent Generation and the Beat Generation, and this does say something about them. The Fifties Generation have kept themselves as invisible as possible but running things from behind the screen, since they took over conservatism and greed from the WWII Generation and upped the ante. Witness the Koch Brothers — Charles and David Koch, born 1935 and 1940 respectively — both of whom are Fifties Gen members. Indeed,… PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 124
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:17 AM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 124 …taken up in abundance as well during the 1980s, when the youngest of that cohort would be nine to nineteen, also. Being thus for the most part in secondary schools and universities from 1972 through 1981, Gen X would be the generation most affected by those changes in society that accompanied the Big Lie involving the scapegoating of the Sixties Generation. For alongside the media’s promotion of a bogus conservative backlash we saw that, at that time, 1971 on, universities were cutting back funding from courses in liberal arts, philosophy, psychology, literature, politics and government, and the like. Post–high-school education was being turned into career-factories dedicated to producing compliant businesspersons, engineers, physicians, and scientists — folks who were not being educated to think for themselves, rather, how to achieve and make money in a culture with which the World-War-Two Generation was comfortable. Yuppies — Children of Fifties Generation Parents The values of the Yuppies are understandable, furthermore, in that they were the sons and daughters of a generation between the World-War- Two and Baby-Boomer Generations, who are rarely talked about.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:58 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

Ch 8, p. 123

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Later these same elderly generational types would tell us that an election in 2020 was stolen, and they would dare to say that some imaginary Antifa were who stormed the Capitol during the insurrection of January 6th, 2021. Daunting, these lies are, as they are indiscriminately piled, one upon the other down through the decades. Despite the success in our society’s collective consciousness of the fantastical lie of Yuppies being former hippies — once it had been planted in the popular culture by the WWII Generation sitting comfortably in front of American society’s steering wheel — the truth is that these Yuppies were predominantly the generation that shadowed the Sixties generation, arising as youth in the aftermath of the Sixties cultural revolution. Yuppies — Products of the WWII Generation’s Todo List Yuppie values become understandable, then, in that many of these Gen Xers were in secondary schools and universities during the Seventies when the “conservative backlash” Big Lie was being promulgated. They would be those born 1961 on, the oldest of whom would be eleven to nineteen, during the Seventies, after 1972. This propaganda would be… 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 123
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:25 AM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

Ch 8, p. 123

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 123 So the Vietnam-era or Sixties Generation began being denigrated in the press with the accusation, “The ‘Me’ Generation,” and Sixties values were also denigrated — the scapegoating of the Sixties Generation continuing — despite the fact that it was a different age group in society, the younger Yuppies, who were actually the ones triggering the attack. Opposing Worlds The hypocrisy of the charge of the Sixties Generation being Yuppies becomes even more blatant when considering their values. Sixties values included such selfless acts as risking, sometimes incurring, violence and personal harm, jail time, and a lower standard of living for the sake of their idealistic beliefs in peace, environmental restoration and preservation, and selfless communitarian living, among others. None of that has any overlap with Yuppie careerism, consumerism, materialism, or their individualistic greedy selfishness. But then truth was not their forte, the WWII and Fifties Generations. Later these same elderly generational types would tell us that an election in 2020 was stolen, and they would dare to say that some imaginary Antifa were who stormed the Capitol during the insurrection of January 6th, 2021. Daunting, these lies are, as they are indiscriminately piled, one upon the other down through the decades.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:29 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 122

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Yet aware of the criticism that their very own values, taken to the Yuppie extremes, was generating in the independent press, as well as the negative publicity there about the cocaine use of the Yuppies, the World-War-Two Generation saw an opportunity not only to defeat but also to “get back” at their opponents, the Sixties Generation, by ridiculing them. The Sixties Generation had of course incurred the wrath of the WWII Generation by opposing and confronting them on the Vietnam War in sometimes harsh and hostile ways. As for the Yuppies who came on the scene after the Sixties Generation, in the predominant World-War-Two Generation fashion of scapegoating — which is the accompaniment of denial and ignoring the fact Yuppies expressed the values the WWII Gen had inculcated in them — the WWII Gen targeted their younger Yuppie clones from the outset. Especially the older generation directed their ire at the cocaine use of the time. The Yuppies, with their cocaine use, were portrayed in the WWII- Generation-paid-for media as former Sixties hippies who had simply grown older but — consistent with their alleged “narcissism” — were still selfish, only now, materially so. Thus the appellation, the “Me” Generation. 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 122
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:33 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 122

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 122 Scapegoating an Entire Generation Coinciding with and supporting the strategy just described, and because the World-War-Two Generation during the Eighties were still in their triumphant phase — a psychohistorical term meaning they were at the stage of their life in late adulthood in which they had pretty much gained control of the reins of society — they furthered their cause by managing to plant a fantasy in the collective consciousness of American culture concerning the origins of Yuppies which persists to this day. Designer generation The WWII Generation was in obvious denial ... again, it being their predominant defensive posture ... of the fact that they had helped to “create” the Yuppies. They blocked out of their minds the obvious similarities between their own values and those of the Yuppies, as exemplified by the similarities between the World-War-Two-era Reagan- Bush political agenda and that of the Yuppies — who indeed helped elect Reagan and Bush. 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 121
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 7:41 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 121

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And the propaganda against the Sixties Generation and its values, repeated endlessly over the decades, led to a media narrative that conservative ideas were winning and that, indeed, progressivism and idealism were silly impulses of a narcissistic generation. Whereas the opposite was what was actually true, such a narrative remains to this day, propped up by moneyed interests because it is convenient for their ends if the populace believes that. And even Democrats have come to subscribe to it over the years, with moderate supporters of Hillary Clinton justifying the slanted playing field against Bernie Sanders in 2016. With all these years convincing themselves that progressives cannot win — often using McGovern’s loss as the example — Clintonites ignored the polls showing Bernie Sanders as another transformational figure. Surveys done during the campaign showed such popular support for Sanders — perhaps even more so than for Barrack Obama earlier — that Sanders would have won in a head-to-head against Donald Trump and been even stronger than Hillary Clinton ended up being. And by the way, if progressives cannot win according to moderate Democrats, and the example of McGovern in 1972 is given, how is it that Barrack Obama won in the greatest Democratic landslide in half a century? Barrack Obama ... who campaigned as a fierce progressive, only eight years earlier, and won. 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 121
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 2:06 AM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

Ch 8, p 121

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 121 …win. So it was unsurprising, to some, when two years later public outcry at Nixon’s criminality in government led to his being forced to resign. Public opinion had changed drastically after the Watergate hearings, so the recently reelected Nixon was left without support. Yet eventually their “Big Lie” tactics, as exhibited in their promotion of a “conservative backlash,” won out so that people began to believe and then to create what they had been repeatedly told. Since the opposite or liberal view, as part of the strategy of creating a conservative backlash, had been censored in the media, people began to think that is what was going on. At that point even Hollywood unconsciously colluded with the Big Lie of a conservative backlash in putting out movies and television shows along those lines.1 We will discuss later on how the show Family Ties was an especially blatant example of their intention to misinform the populace about the actual direction of the country. Thus, the Yuppies were the creation of the WWII Generation in their attempt to reverse the course of society that their own daughters and sons, as “Sixties Youth,” had put it on. And the propaganda against the Sixties Generation and its values, repeated endlessly over the decades, led to a media narrative that conservative ideas were winning and that, indeed, progressivism and idealism were silly impulses of a narcissistic generation. Whereas the opposite was what was actually true, such a narrative remains to this day, propped up by moneyed interests because it is convenient for their ends if the populace believes that.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 7:34 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

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And yes, at that time, 1972, Nixon did defeat liberal George McGovern, which coincides with a conservative backlash; yet this only occurred after the well-known, the hugely popular Robert F. Kennedy, who had been surging toward the Democratic nomination, had been assassinated earlier in the year. Confounded with the fact that McGovern was a last-minute stand-in was McGovern’s debacle of casting Thomas Eagleton as his running mate. Eagleton was found to have been treated during his life for “mental illness,” depression. Which was a pretty common thing, even then, and should not really have been an issue. Yet McGovern would be first of many Democratic politicians to shoot himself in the foot — in trying to come across as “nonpartisan” — by overly conforming to traditional prejudices and backing away from liberal principles. So he would drop his vice-presidential pick and, thinking to regain that Kennedy gleam, replace him with a supremely colorless, though credentialed, figure out of the Kennedy clan — Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., known popularly as Sargent Shriver. Only with all that confusion in the months leading up to the 1972 election did Nixon
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 7:48 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

Ch 8, p. 120

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 120 …late Seventies and most of the Eighties — within a period of a mere decade — the prevailing, media-amplified cultural values of our society swung, pendulum-like, a hundred-and-eighty degrees from where they had been. Matrix Manifest and The Big Lie This change had a great deal to do with the efforts of the World-War- Two Generation — in total horror at the way their sons and daughters seemed to be reversing the values for which they had lived, and fought — to “take back” society. The WWII Generation did this by putting pressure, as well-to-do alumni, on universities and colleges across America to turn their curricula away from liberal arts and toward job- oriented curricula, and by using their positions of power in the media to influence the flow and content of the information to be fed to the mainstream public. For example, in the early Seventies, specifically beginning in 1972 and just before the election of Nixon for a second term, the WWII Generation’s money and power directed the press to declare that a “conservative backlash” was occurring in America, when in fact the opposite was happening.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 6:58 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 119

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As expressed in Wall Street, they are driven solely by a value that “Greed is good!” This was later expressed on television as “Greed is good; money is everything.” This slogan is completely the opposite of the previous generation — the Sixties Generation — whose attitudes were expressed in lyrics like “I don’t care too much for money; money can’t buy me love” and “Love is all you need”; who bought and lived by books with titles such as How to Live on Nothing, The Greening of America, and Back to Eden; and whose most famous slogan was “Tune in, Turn on, Drop out.” Or, as it was sometimes said, “Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.” I’m not sure anyone in the generation knew which was the “proper” way to say it. Both apply, anyway. “Me Generation” Another term used for the Yuppie Generation was the “Me” Generation. Thus it was that from the height of Vietnam-Era youth’s influence on society and culture in the late Sixties, early Seventies to the 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 119
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 7:53 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 119 …members were antiwar activists, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Reagan, Yuppy-Kay-Yo-Kay-Yay The less idealistic, more materialistic ones, the Yuppies, came in at the same time as Ronald Reagan into the White House and, indeed, exemplified much of what Reagan stood for. They were seen as greedy, over-achieving, materialistic, narcissistic, and societally and environmentally insensitive careerists. On the positive side, Yuppies had a keen appreciation for the finer things in life.... It’s okay to laugh here, that was meant to be snark. “Love is all you need” turned into “Money is good!” Yuppies were portrayed in film. One in particular that sought to delineate the attitudes of this character type was the movie, Wall Street, in which Charlie Sheen plays the role of the Yuppie, mentored by the Fifties Generation character, Gekko, played by Michael Douglas. Together they give a portrayal of complete self-centeredness and insensitivity to the ways their Machiavellian strategies harm others or the environment.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 9:33 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

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A land of empathy and insensitivity Lastly, since these stimulants repress feelings, they can lead to insensitivity toward others. Yet since they can repress fear which blocks truer perception of and appreciation of others they can, paradoxically, result in feelings of love toward others and a feeling of finally really seeing others and appreciating them for who they are, not simply in the way one has cast them ... “pigeon-holed” them ... to fit into one’s scripts, agendas, ego projects, or desires. Matrix Manifesting The Eighties The Eighties saw an epidemic of cocaine use. This was commonly attributed to Yuppies, which is the popular term for the Young Upwardly-mobile Professional character of this era and is contrasted with the idealistic, activist, and anti–Vietnam-War Yippies. Yippies stands for Youth International Party, whose founders and most famous… PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 118
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*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 118 Glimpses of clarity Nonetheless, concerning the positive aspects of cocaine, it can be mentally enhancing partly because of its repression of fear. For fears, as mentioned, are both of the helpful-cautionary as well as the oppressive types. Being released from the oppressiveness of fears, being freed of the constraints of “fearful thinking,” can result in seeing one’s reality more clearly. Feeling fearless can lead one to acknowledging truths and realities normally defended against — thus being therapeutic even, getting a glimpse of reality outside one’s fears. Reckless Being freed from normal caution, however, can lead one into reckless activities with consequences far beyond one’s ability to handle in either a normal, or drugged, state. It is no coincidence that these stimulant drugs have seen heavy usage by wartime participants — notable are their use by fighter pilots and by American warriors in Vietnam. A land of empathy and insensitivity
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One does not feel constrained by normal fears or apprehensions, so one throws oneself into new activities with reckless abandon. One feels overly confident in one’s abilities and engages in all kinds of risk-taking — financially, sexually, interpersonally, legally. Later, we would find out, politically. These activities have one embarking on dubious schemes which rarely pan out. A land of light and darkness Despite these negatives, the corollary of this mental activity is that one’s ability to think and see more clearly on some issues is enhanced, precisely because one’s fears can pollute one’s perception and apprehension of things. It is enlightening to remember that Sigmund Freud, among other notables in history, experimented with cocaine. At one point, Freud was heartily endorsing its use to his colleagues; he was waxing expansively about its benefits for mental life and clarity of consciousness. “Waxing expansively” does happen to be one of the things one does on cocaine, incidentally. Of course, Freud changed his position on cocaine’s benefits later. No doubt his use led him to see its face of darkness as well. 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 117
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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 117 …amphetamine, uppers, “whites,” and so on. They repress Pain extraordinarily well. Building castles in the sky They are euphoriants and cause one to have the feeling that one’s mental capacities are expanded. One feels that one can envision projects and outcomes precisely. So, one expends oneself in organizing and preparing for great achievements, which rarely are embarked upon. Free from fear, reckless, overconfident, risk-taking Since these drugs repress Pain, creating an amped state of mind more than normally able to fend off unwanted emotional material, they repress the normally present residue of fear, with its attendant caution in the face of activities outside of one’s comfort zone requiring forethought and anticipation. One does not feel constrained by normal fears or apprehensions, so one throws oneself into new activities with reckless abandon. One feels overly confident in one’s abilities and engages in all kinds of risk-taking — financially, sexually, interpersonally, legally. Later, we would find out, politically. These activities have one embarking on dubious schemes which rarely pan out.
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