Want to suppress a potential uprising? Use heroin as chemical warfare. Need to fund a secret war? Addict a population. Heroin & Crack are the ultimate control & fund-raising tools of governments. The people who sell it, esp at the higher levels of course, want to enslave the user plain & simple. It's, simply speaking, an enslaving tool & little else. Having lived in Baltimore City for 18 yrs as an adult, a city where something like 10% of the population are drug addicts, 60,000 drug addicts having been surrounded by drug addiction amongst my friends, having shot heroin myself, I can safely say that shooting heroin is a VERY BAD IDEA. A rock musician's dream: eternal life thru drug abuse. In "Junkie" he writes: "Most addicts look younger than they are." "Perhaps if a junkie could keep himself in a constant state of kicking, he would live to a phenomenal age." Right. On the other hand, he made junk look glamorous. I've read almost everything he ever wrote. He incisively described its giant boot tromping on our minds & lit a firecracker under the boot. He was a great critic of the so-called "Great Society" & he hated it for much the same reasons that I do. He existed in a world that many ignore or disparage w/o understanding & cast fresh light on it. Always writing w/ a challenging imagination.
He was an investigator, never taking things for granted, always questioning, always writing w/ clarity. Reading his hard looks at life was informative. Burroughs is, of course, one of the most important writers to me.
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