135: Capitalism and the War on Drugs (Benjamin Fong)

Email us at [email protected] This episode is all about America's unhealthily relationships with work and drugs. We live in a world where we are increasingly distracted and secluded, and our daily schedules often consist of punching a clock and returning home. It's no wonder we feel so compelled to use drugs. We are torturing ourselves with capitalism. Benjamin Fong's book, Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, is available now. His other work is linked below on most pod-catchers."The Psychedelic Renaissance Is on the Verge of an Uneasy Enlightenment" in Jacobin.  "Monsters of the Brain, Images of the Deity: Psychology and Religion in the Eighteenth Century" in The Journal of Religion."Hans Loewald and the Death Drive" is in Psychoanalytic Psychology."On Critics and What's Real: Russell McCutcheon on Religious Experience" is in the Journal of American Academy of Religion. For more about eugeroics/nootropics like modafinil, check out the Vice article, "Taking the 'Smart Drug' Modafinil Made Me Love Work but Hate People"Support the show