The Addiction Philosophy Map
28 November 2016
The swift run of the contemporary human existence can be shown as a polygonal curve where salient points are the places of possible drastic changes. To imagine how easily can alcohol fit the modern lifestyle I recommend watching Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary, a film made on the basis of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel of the same name. There we can see the so-called golden age of addiction when things don’t impede one another at first sight. Working for a local newspaper, having love affairs, trying to set up a business – all this mingles with drinking scenes. Besides, all elements of the film plot seem independent or even equal. Moreover, such a plot is an “eternal now” with almost no guesses which part of life (for example, love or alcohol) is principal for the main character Paul Kemp
Descartes was onto something, l I am not indubitably certain, in consciousness, that I exist and that I am thinking such-and-such. But for so long as I am conscious, consciously thinking such-and-such, I am aware that I am so thinking. And that awareness - of my experience and so of myself- defines consciousness. Yet modern philosophy was soon beset with puzzles about the self, self-awareness, and inner awareness of experience.