P E A C E
The Absence of Addiction (The Absence of Despondence and Distraction) is “peace”
Peace is living a balanced, harmonious, happy life.
A D D I C T I O N
Addiction is the conscious or unconscious desire to live an un-peaceful life. For a person’s addiction to succeed, there must be present two ingredients:
- Despondence
- Distraction
D E S P O N D E N C E
Despondence is the first ingredient necessary for addiction. Despondence is a day-to-day misery. Generally, there are two paths to despondence:
- Lack: Generally accepted as a path to despondence, LACK is a situation in which a person does not have what they need to live in peace.
- Surfeit: There is nothing reasonable, and nothing healthy, about wanting more than you need to live a balanced harmonious, happy life. SURFEIT is overabundance – having too much. “You can never have too much of a good thing”, is an unspoken mantra in some cultures; regardless, overabundance has never led anyone to peace. Instead, overabundance leads to anxiety, ir-rationalizing, and a generally terrible feeling that is well-described as ‘Spiritual Debt’.
D I S T R A C T I O N
Despondence is the first ingredient necessary for addiction; and the second ingredient necessary for addiction is Distraction. Distraction is a disservice to a person’s life; Distraction confuses; Distraction convinces a person to have bad priorities; Distraction is untruth believed.
The following are two particularly pernicious paths to distraction:
- Multi-Million Dollar Marketing, by Billion-Dollar Corporations, intended to create addiction (despondence and distraction).
- Women should be valued according to their physical appearance
- Women are intrinsically inadequate, and must meticulously falsify their true appearance
- Men should be valued according to their earning potential
- When a man purchases the proper clothing, colognes and soda, women will overestimate his earning potential
- Pseudo-Humanitarian Campaigns; e.g. “Feed the Children”, “Stop AIDS”
“Feed the children” campaigns thrive in the U.S. solely to spread, to the slave-classes, the notion that, “You should be happy with what you have”. “Stop AIDS” campaigns exist to justify medical testing that is often illegal to test on animals and prisoners. “Stop AIDS” also campaigns provide a potent distraction: pseudo-humanitarian campaigns often train addicts to believe that their addiction makes them a hero – “Stop AIDS” campaigns tell addicts that, if you distract yourself from your despondence by over-consumption of worthless products, you will eventually solve all the worlds problems.
Sincerely,
Nicodaemos
