This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Fun vs. Drunkenness
Jul
17
2025
I don’t have personal experience with this, but I was thinking about the old topic of raising awareness and for some reason I made the connection with drunkenness.
Normally to have fun you go to an event and it’s a higher level than your normal activity, so you end up having fun.
Being drunk fools you into thinking you’re having fun. Instead of going to something that’s a higher level than your normal activity, what it does is bring your mental ability lower so whatever you’re doing seems fun. But if fun, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose that accomplishes its purpose.
This is somewhat related to the concept of raising awareness in that raising awareness becomes pointless when everything is raised. But it’s the opposite in that your current experience becomes better if you keep it the same but lower your brain functionality. I.e. you’re more easily impressed or amused.
Which might not seem to be a bad deal to some people, but you can’t sustain that. It’s like so many people these days – instead of aspiring to be someone better, they look to bring down the other people.
Then Eli said to her, “How long will you behave like a drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
1 Samuel 1:14
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