Do you think that these days, we tend to rely on alcohol?

Question

to think we are having a good time?

Answer 1

Perhaps young people today feel they have to keep up with the artificial life they see on TV. They need to be taught that "Individualism" is the name of the game. you don't need a prop in order to just be yourself.

Answer 2

I gave up alcohol ten years ago, because i felt i was injuring myself every time i had some, for instance killing brain cells. You wouldn't bang your head against a wall repeatedly for entertainment, so why drink? I have nothing against people who do drink alcohol though, in moderation anyway.

What i find is that i have to push myself harder to socialise and so forth. I resent paying through the nose for soft drinks in bars as well, and it irks me that people become aggressive and violent and have to anaesthetise themselves to cope with each other. I resent that when i go out on Sunday mornings the streets are covered with vomit and that when i go into town on Friday nights there's an atmosphere of threat and violence.

I think there should be a state alcohol monopoly in this country like there is in Sweden. I am a non-smoker, but i think alcohol is a bigger problem because it causes a lot more death and injury than tobacco does.

Answer 3

I think that it is a stronger aspect of some cultural practices than others. I think that Americans tend to use it negatively, as a coping skill...an escape...a way to forget things, more than they use it as a hobby or pleasurable activity. Many people in America (and I am American) think that drinking means getting drunk and that excess is the way to go. Alcohol is not needed to have a good time. I am completely dry and I have a good time on a regular basis. People always ask me "Why don't you drink," when really the question should be "Why do you?" In German and English cultures, drinking is normal and seen as nothing important or special. Young children drink and there is lower rate of alcoholism (aka: excess that interferes with life). So, I think that it is glorified by the American culture, as a necessary part of losing inhabitions, when really I see it as something that should be respected.

Answer 4

It's not "these days." It's been that way all throughout human history, ever since some guy accidentally spilled oats into his water and realized "Hey! I feel pretty funny when I drink this stuff now!"

Answer 5

Not anymore than they have over the past 4 thousand years.

Answer 6

Not only alcohol but all vices. Even food can be a vice.

Answer 7

i rely on alcohol.....i actually wish i had some right now.......drinking is fun!

Answer 8

yes because the feeling it gives you makes your personality more easy going

Answer 9

I did for a while,,but my liver threatened to divorce me

Answer 10

some people not all