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Ecstacy and the war on empathy.

by glenstark [6], July 14, 2009, 08:22am
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I recently read an article on the Sotomeyer Hearings [15], which discussed how "Republicans Question Need for Empathy". This led me to contemplate how our entire war on drugs is a war on empathy, particularly the drug policies started by the Nixon administration. These were of course part of an overall strategy against the counter culture which preached (among other things) increased empathy. The war on drugs was one of the earliest and longest lasting fronts in the culture war which has played such a large part of American politics in my life time. I think the rather disproportionate vilification of ecstacy is in no small part because of an anti-empathy attitude among fundamentalists. So I wrote a little article about it here. [16] Perhaps some of you would enjoy reading it. I look forward to reading any comments.
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