Addiction Is a Solution, Not the Problem

You published a book on addiction 20 years ago before this became before the opioid epidemic. >> It was like buying Apple in 83. >> Correct. As a rabbi rabbi trauma existence all this stuff. >> And you could have rode that into the sunset. >> Why didn't you? >> Because I told you my greatest pain is being misunderstood. And what would have been misunderstood had that been your primary window through which you entire book the thesis of which and this will save you however much book cost and by the way I don't get the royalties anyway so it's not like at any rate the whole thesis of the book that saves you from buying it is that addiction is not really the problem addiction is the solution >> but the problem is the pain of >> existence the pain of existence as a as a separate selfhood as a conscious ego apart from God and the only real solution is is spiritual awakening. Um so I wrote that was the whole thesis of it and yet like people kept coming to me like wanting me to talk about what I just said is not the real problem >> and they kept wanting you to treat their >> Yeah. Like when everyone oh porm is coming up can you make a statement about drinking? I'm like I don't care about drinking. No no what what are you and they think I'm being and even they they'll think either I'm being facicious or I'm being rude. I'm just blowing them off. I really don't care. Let people drink on BL. I really Can you Can you Can you Can you lend your voice away? We have petition against the kiddish clubs. Like I don't care about >> So you wanted to decouple in order to focus on that spiritual >> point was the spiritual awakening. My point was that was speaking to the recovery world where you don't have to sell them on the fact that life is unbearably painful. They already know that. They learned that from life. >> And then I'm presenting this possible solution that spiritual awakening is is the solution. And it and and and that was all I wanted. That was my only message.