Pot helps me relax and makes for a great transition to sleepy time.This January, I gave it all up for a full month and here’s what happened:Overall, this was a positive experience. ""While not always formally recognized, much of the protest of the sixties was anarchist. Completely, stone-cold-sober.I don’t consider myself an alcoholic, in the sense that I don’t crave alcohol or find it difficult to stay away. I find it more relaxing, introspective and less taxing on my body than booze. I spent my days practicing what I was going to … 2004. I’m a happy/funny drunk and have never been in a fight as a result of excessive drinking. My substance of choice has shifted to marijuana which has actually helped me drink less. Within the nascent women's movement, anarchist principles became so widespread that a political science professor denounced what she saw as ""Within the movements of the sixties there was much more receptivity to anarchism-in-fact than had existed in the movements of the thirties...But the movements of the sixties were driven by concerns that were more compatible with an expressive style of politics, with hostility to authority in general and state power in particular...By the late sixties, political protest was intertwined with cultural radicalism based on a critique of all authority and all hierarchies of power. I was extremely nervous to confront my boss and spent a lot of time looking for advice online. If getting married makes you happy, then I think you should do just that. On most evenings, I’ll take a few pulls from a joint that sits in my Rastafarian ashtray. Sweet. It is allowing the spread of radical ideas far beyond what was possible in the past, being, for now, out of the control of the traditional gatekeepers of knowledge. "Sargent, Lyman Tower. Oxford University Press"The remedy has been found: libertarian communism. Extremism in American: A Reader, NYU Press, 1995, p. 11; Also, Tormey, Simon, Anti-Capitalism, A Beginner's Guide, Oneworld Publications, 2004, p. 118-119 "Pro-capitalist anarchism, is as one might expect, particularly prevalent in the U.S. where it feeds on the strong individualist and libertarian currents that have always been part of the American political imaginary. But, I do recognize that everything is better in moderation, and taking a break from these substances once a year is probably a wise move.I’m going to make this a yearly tradition and will be Sober every January going forward.It's almost the end of 2019 and I'm still on track for early retirement at the ripe age of 39 in one years time. To return to the point, however, there are individualist anarchists who are most certainly not anti-capitalist and there are those who may well be.""anarcho-capitalism." Oxford English Dictionary. Although, I’ve been known to overindulge once I get started. This past January, I went the distance without a drop of alcohol or a puff of a doobski. It also keeps me out of trouble since being high makes me feel super aware and vulnerable whereas drinking turns me into an invincible extrovert. I like classic cocktails, beer, wine and enjoy the feeling of liberation that comes along with having a few! The topic of what I'll do with my time once I've retired from the grind has come up quite a bit. After not drinking for a month, I set the tone for the balance of the year and feel that I will be more aware of my drinking habits and its effects.I also realized that I don’t want to live my life completely sober.
Quite the opposite, I’ve met so many new people and have had many great nights with complete strangers due to excessive drinking.As I’m getting older, I’ve become more aware of my alcohol intake and have definitely curbed my drinking.
It's almost the end of 2019 and I'm still on track for early retirement at the ripe age of 39 in one years time. Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that rejects all involuntary, coercive forms of hierarchy.It calls for the abolition of the state which it holds to be undesirable, unnecessary and harmful. "Leonard Williams, "The New Anarchists," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31, 2006, online, pdf, 2008-05-07 Whilst the classical schools of anarchist thought remain popular and relevant to the modern world (for example, anarcho-syndicalism, a movement within anarchism that seeks to organize society along economic syndicalism, has proponents that include Noam Chomsky, who said it is "highly relevant to advanced industrial societies), anarchism continues to generate many philosophies and movements, at times eclectic, drawing upon various sources, and syncretic, combining disparate concepts to create ne…