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Whatever the violent confrontation is about, whether it is Vietnam,
Afghanistan or heroin, masters of war are slaves of fear. Fear is what
builds all the guns, all the shooting galleries; the aim ultimately the
same: kill the fear in oneself, but somehow and for some reason, the truth
is rarely if ever addressed.
 Becoming a murderer to kill one’s fear takes
more than a single shot from a single gun, but it’s not fired shot at the
right person where the fear is centralized and where the fear operates.
Becoming a junkie may only take a single shot from a single spike, but at
least the shot is taken in the right direction at the fear within, even
though it rarely, if ever comes close to striking it down.
In some, if not
many cases, the most common junkie’s battle is more appropriately directed
than the most brilliant war strategist because the junkie at least is
fighting on the correct battlefield against the proper enemy: fear and all
its ensuing negative states within one’s own psyche.
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The junkie better than
the warrior knows that one shot will never be enough to win a war. What a
moment of grace, satori, clarity, when a junkie becomes awake to the truth
that shooting offers no solution to the end of suffering generated by fear!
Unlike many a politician who orders the killing of thousands, sometimes,
millions and is not shooting for peace, but for increased power or the
false, temporal luxury of indomitable safety and structure (security) which
only breeds more fear, though of a different kind, a junkie’s aim is
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usually no more than receiving peace from suffering induced largely by his
or her enslavement to fear, but the path of self-destruction has more
victims than the person who embarks upon it cares to consider to a
meaningful extent.
Nonetheless, the junkie’s goals are more reasonable and
honest, but they are no more attainable because of the nature of his or her
ally, smack or heroin, an unreliable hero, which does not, in and of itself,
awaken a person to the deepest awareness of the conflict whereby he or she
can resolve the source of fear.
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