SLL doesn’t have a social media “following” because SLL isn’t on social media, for many of the reasons el gato malo details. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
social media and the erosion of everything
junkies are as junkies do and addiction does not work in the way that most people think it does.1 it’s not predominantly about “this substance or that one,” it’s about internal need; the substances are largely incidental. they just help to provide a rush, to ameliorate pain, to grant reprieves and short-term highs that allow people to get away from long-term problems. addiction is generally not “addition to” it’s mostly “flight from” a kind of dependency that develops from failing to address problems and pain and looking for an easy fix to make the feelings go away. cocaine is no different than gambling and heroin no different than addiction to masking.
in the end, it’s mostly “avoidance behavior” using surrogates to avoid something one does not want to face. the disaster curve accelerates as the longer one uses fake fixes, the worse the underlying problems become and therefore the more “fix” it requires to balm the ever mounting hurt. you are deepening and inflaming a wound while papering over the surface and numbing the pain of it such that it grows increasingly severe and it takes more and more “fix” to stay on top of it.
the vast majority of people who try drugs don’t get addicted. even if you feel bad afterward and have physical withdrawal such as opioids or high use of alcohol generate, presuming you are a sound and well-adjusted human, you could go try drugs and almost certainly have nothing worse than a hangover happen to you the next day. you’d get over it and move on. it’s not the pills or powders or bottles. healthy people can use them and walk away. it’s the fact that unhealthy people are drawn to them as a quick fix that drives nearly all of the issues. most people don’t go looking to try heroin or even oxy. it’s people in pain who do, and chronic pain is awful and escape from it blissful. therein lies the road to dependence.
but masking symptoms while cause runs riot is no path to health.
I’m a true addict aw shit I got a headrush as Rage Against The Machine said and this was years before social media.
Never waded through the social media sewer and never will.