… and then wasting the rest.
Vanity Fair has published an except from Brotopia that has my Facebook friends talking.
[The excerpt does not take the Wall Street position that “there are two sides to every trade.” There are, instead, victims and victimizers. This lead to a Facebook comment regarding the purported victims: “they thought that they were going to Bible study with some good Christian friends”]
Couldn’t figure out if the author was upset about the social order or all the sins being committed. Are we now supposed to believe in a god who punishes people for sleeping around & outlaw cannabis, after the same people were telling us there was no god & to legalize cannabis a year ago? The social order is the same in any business, but the money just happens to be here, this time around.
Felix Dennis, the late British publishing billionaire turned poet and tree planter, famously said, “I’ve spent $100M on wine, prostitutes, and drugs. The rest I spent foolishly.”
lion: That’s a great point. Abstinence until marriage is a ridiculous nonstarter. Staying married when one has found a better-in-some-way partner is for chumps. Drugs should be legal. Yet somehow a social gathering to enjoy casual sex and drugs is, well, deplorable? How is this logically consistent?
Ninety percent [of my salary] I’ll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I’ll probably waste — Tug McGraw
The week after Burning Man is the busiest time of the year for San Francisco’s VD clinics.