Mass Murders: Can We Recover?

Many Asian nations had struggled with opium dens for thousands of years before explorers in the west discovered the Americas. Sixty years ago, I was in my youth in the New World and I had never heard of drug addiction. It was the invention of the jumbo jet that finally opened floodgates to allow our naïve culture to merge with the ways of the rest of the world.

Today, the jumbo jet population is exploding and we are awash in Old World narcotics, both legal and illegal. To make matters worse we have invented our own toxic chemical hallucinogens to pacify our population.

Mass murders? Some blame guns. Others blame mental illness, but the elephant in the corner is addiction. Narcotics call up madness and guns facilitate the crime.

Can we stem our addiction to addiction? In a world of excruciating pain, narcotics consumption is accelerating at an alarming pace. The scale and frequency of human atrocities can be expected to keep pace with our escalating slide into the stupor of drug dependency.