Drugs to golf

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From: argrath@aol.com
Date: Thu 31 Mar 1994 - 06:15:20 EEST


MOB points out:
"Islamic nations across the world have proscribed alcohol for
well over a thousand years before the Opium Wars. Does this count as a "drug" in your book?"

It's a drug, all right. Hmm. All right, give me TWO examples... Seriously, though, it doesn't have quite the same "feel" to it as hazia, does it? Hazia is more of a marijuana/LSD analogue, or like that green stuff the Yanomamo blow up each others' noses. Also, the Muslim prohibition is religious, not secular, while hazia is presented as a secular prohibition. I'd like it a lot more if it were as you suggest, a religious thing for the puritanical Sun Domers. But even then, most of Glorantha is Bronze Age, and the rise of Islam is medieval. I'd see the prohibition of a formerly popular drug as being a possible issue in the West, maybe.

What does public drunkenness have to do with salt mines? Were they unable to make margaritas until recently?

Loved your (Gloranthan) drugs, MOB, and your "beyond the pale" stuff.

Colin Watson:
What's the difference between a reality that was always "there," but was unknown before you entered it, and a reality called into being by your attempts to exit your old world?

There is no there there.

     --Gertrude Stein, on Oakland.

Jim Lai says, re: my deliberately overstated comments on drugs:
"Isn't that overstating things a bit? My impression was that
opium was outlawed because it caused too much capital to leave China, as well as making the masses lethargic: practical reasons without resorting to some anti-drug morality. This same reasoning has led to bans on gambling. Economics. ..."

Actually, Great Britain forced the opium trade on China as a means of avoiding the tremendous drain on its capital (especially precious metals) from the tea and pottery trade. And that was the nineteenth century, wasn't it?

Loren Miller's golf idea is priceless.

"If you can't say something nice, say something surrealistic."
--Martin

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