Problematic Alcohol Use Has Become More Common Among Older Women
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My best experience with alcohol was the time I flew across the country to San Francisco for a conference, I was a speaker so I was invited to a party for speakers the day before it started for real.
I was tired from flying but when I had a few drinks I had the energy to really engage with people, it was a great example of alcohol being a social lubricant. In that case I felt the gains could be contrasted to the risks.
These days I don't drink at all because it seems one drink, any time during the day, screws up my sleep for the next night and I've found that getting good sleep consistently makes all the difference for my mental health.
Of course since you're a Tom Wolfe conservative..
(I never really figured why either of you would be conservative, care to explain further? My guess it's something about not wanting to hack human cognition at the molecular to uh sub-emotional range)
https://archive.ph/zLcOL
Stalking the billion-footed beast is his most introspective essay [I could find], but even there I found no trace of the idea of a "personal" status hierarchy that is meaningful without concurrently tilting at the universal.
I'd say "cool" captures Tom Wolfe's master status hierarchy..
Cool can be personal in the way God is, though.. (so "personal sky" as an alias makes complete sense.)
The Power Elite looks interesting.. I'll let you know when something comes out of reading that..