“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity” – Dale Carnegie

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.

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

“No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.”
– W. H. Auden

“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.