Addiction vs Genius

During the evening session at the downtown campus of the University of Fag Bar (pending accreditation), yet another Fat White Fag was guest-lecturing, beer in hand. The topic of his discourse was drug-fucked fags and their myriad addictions. 

It sounded interesting, so FuelMix snuggled into a quiet corner table to observe the learned fag in full flight. 

Fat White Fag was in his mid fifties, English, pasty-faced, chinless and pompous. He was the perfect quasi-academic, mildly amusing diversion from the raucous dice-playing chinks at the other end of the bar. 

Fag proceeded to deplore the addiction-fuelled lifestyle of the urban fag. FuelMix shrugged, having written about that at length in this blog. There was nothing new in Fat White Fag's pontifications until……the revelation that addiction spawns genius. 

FuelMix’s spine stiffened. 

“Yes....!” exclaimed Fat White Fag excitedly, “just look at Amy Winehouse.....!” FuelMix snorted in disbelief, gin and tonic were already oozing from his nostrils.  

“She’s amazing....!!” gushed the fag, “her second album is incredible....!” 

“OK”, thought FuelMix, “the woman had some talent and poor choice of mascara. But she also had a number of other substance-related issues. And her main man is in jail.......Oh.....and did we mention her addictions killed both her AND her genius...???” 

If addiction really does spawn genius, then every drug-fucked fag and his plush toy would rival Da Vinci, Einstein or Mozart. Instead, the chronically under-achieving generic urban fag is behind on his rent, coming off a high, staring at Facebook updates on his smarter-than-him phone, hanging in chat rooms for hours - usually on a high -  debating which sex club to hit next, or wondering what to wear to Starbucks. 

The educated Armani suited professional fag with a briefcase and a cockring, is no better. He deludes himself with the description of being a “recreational drug user”. FuelMix has said before in this blog that there is no such thing as a “recreational drug user”. There’s only a part-time addict. 

So far as FuelMix can see, addiction is a by-product of a lost life, or priorities that have been badly scrambled, or some form of explicit or implicit coercion. Has there been art, music and literature created on chem? Sure, for years. Does that addiction spawn the genius? We doubt it. At best, the addiction is an outlet. As Deepak Chopra says, addiction is a second class substitute for spiritual ecstacy. Given that so many fags spend so much of their time injesting the amphetamine by the same name, or lusting for carnal ecstacy (which at its root may stem from a deep sense of rejection and isolation despite living in a "gay community"), it’s not surprising that they would resort to addiction as an alternative or enhancement to ejaculation. 

FuelMix felt like pointing out to the Fat White Fag that there’s no point deploring one group’s chem fuelled lifestyle, only to laud it in someone else. Let’s call a spade a spade. Addiction is a sickness, a symptom of pain and a very visible cry for help. 

Do addiction (chem, or sexual or whatever) and genius have anything in common? Yeah:

• Both tendencies are latent or inherent;

• Both can be developed over time in the right environment;

• Both can be exploited;

• Both can lead to notoriety;

• Both can lead to insanity;

• Both can lead to an early death;

Originally published 13 December 2007. 
Amended and republished 29 March 2012  | 1 October 2014

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