To protect themselves against honesty (and provide the unconsciousness addictions require) DIMwits play an assortment of dopamine games. One especially flimsy game is I’ll Let You Deny Your Addictions If You Let Me Deny Mine.

“All human beings are becoming humanoids. All over the world, not just in America. We’re just getting there faster since we’re the most advanced country.” – Howard Beale

“History is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.”
– Edward Gibbon, historian (1737-1794)

“We can do much to reduce the shame and the stigma of drug addiction, once medical professionals, and we as a society, understand that addiction is not just ‘a disease of the brain,’ but one in which the circuits that enable us to exert free will no longer function as they should.”
– Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”
– Demosthenes

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
– William James

If our species does self-destruct, it won’t be because of addictions. It will be because of the dishonesty caused by additions.

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.” – Voltaire