It was extremely widespread in Russian Empire too. To the extent that not only poets and artists used morphine and cocaine, but also some high ranking officials. One of the police chiefs, for example, was both morphinist and alcoholic.
If you think america moved too fast in the beginning of the century, try Russian Empire. Not only the same technological marvels as everywhere in the west, but also three revolutions and several wars. Change of government from monarchy to parlamentarism to socialism.
Also, countless posts, painters and new genres of art.
If you know Russian, Dusk Of The Empire podcast is pretty cool.
Well, technologically everyone progresses. But societal change seems to be much harder.
Still, most people were illiterate and young children were valued close to nothing among peasants. Children mortality up to 5 years old was 60%.
Thinking of it, even current (terrible) war pales in comparison.
Oddly that puts the old Roman social conception of children bit more into perspective. They viewed children as nuisance to adults, particularly to men, from what I gather. Not that later European or other cultures were much different.
Makes a cold sorta sense – why even bother getting too close to them if most won't even survive to become a useful adult. Rough world.
Yes. And the change of this view about children was greatly influenced by Janusz Korczak, one of great educators of early XX century. He also was born in Russian Empire, when Poland was part of it. Died in German concentration camp ;(
Weirdly, my sister in the US with good insurance waits more then I do in my post Soviet country. Although I have insurance and money to skip the lines.
Still, I was surprised to hear how much she waits.
Anectodically, this is pretty rare. I know quite a lot of people who used psychedelics, and they are fine.
I think some important safety points is to know family history of mental illness and not do then until later in life.
Anecdotally I know so many people thrashing their lives and this of loved ones with alcohol and antidepressants while I can’t immediately think up of even a single one, okay I know one guy who was doing everything altogether, who went so badly down the spiral thanks to acid. And this one guy actually had a horrendous childhood with lotta abuse so perhaps was already scheduled for a cathartic experience.
Wallabag is not so bad. The only grievance I have is that it scrapes from server in Firefox. Sometimes it won't work. In chrome, it can scrape directly from the browser, which allows for logged in articles.
It is quite common, but not always. I, for example, even was doing GC/MS to check substance and purity.
My friends listened to me about how to approach these things. So, quite common, ancdotically.
