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Sonnet on Connection

When rat-trapped in a sol-i-tary cage,
When disconnected from the circuit board,
Re-wire this individualistic age,
Re-route with fellow citizens you whored,
And intimacy reunite with sex,
Reconstitute the male and female parts;
The spiritual, the mundane, the complex,
Connect us all in bodies, minds and hearts. 

Complete the circuit, light the bulb, switch on!
Unmetered and unlimited the power!
High voltage, of all beacons paragon,
Illuminates the danger of the hour:
Unearthed, in all this electricity,
Connection with a force greater than we. 


© Sara Nicola Ruth

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⛱ This fascinating article which completely reframes addiction as being the opposite of connection, with your own feelings and with the people around you. 

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think

The rats with good lives didn’t like the drugged water. They mostly shunned it, consuming less than a quarter of the drugs the isolated rats used. None of them died. While all the rats who were alone and unhappy became heavy users, none of the rats who had a happy environment did. (…)

Professor Alexander argues this discovery is a profound challenge both to the right-wing view that addiction is a moral failing caused by too much hedonistic partying, and the liberal view that addiction is a disease taking place in a chemically hijacked brain. In fact, he argues, addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you. It’s your cage.

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