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This site is, for the most part, a drug-and-booze-free zone. It is
also a guru-free zone. Knox grew up in the sixties, a fourth-generation
West Coast lad, and came of age in the seventies.
He partook
freely in the pursuit of sensation and elation through much of those
decades and beyond and has, unfortunately, seen far too many of those
closest to him fall into the abyss, too often with fatal consequences.
Suicides, overdoses, car crashes, all manners of drug and booze related
death has Knox witnessed close at hand. Knox himself has been booze and
drug free for seventeen years.
For those of you who still buy into the romantic notion that creativity comes from drugs and/or booze, Knox suggests you listen to the Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, one of the most musical and sexy and romantic (manifesting the naive and wonderful optimism that was once so identified with the West Coast) albums to come out of the golden era of pop music, and then listen to their Bless Its Pointed Little Head album, a cocaine-and-booze-fueled barrage of live drivel from three years later. If that doesn't demonstrate the fallacy of drugs/booze=creativity and musicality, write Knox and he'll send you some more examples.
But be assured that Knox is not
anti-drug. Knox is, however, pro-sobriety. Knox has no problem
with earth-people getting drunk or high or whatever it is they do on
occasion.
Knox is not preaching: please feel free to use any of
the drugs he somehow missed in the old days, as well as any booze he
failed to drink.
Put on some music! Have a glass of wine.
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