March 07, 2018
What's Driving the Opioid Crisis? Star Parker nails it.
Dana Mathewson
Star Parker is a keen
observer of social problems, because she's been "down and out" herself,
pulled herself out of it (without government help) and now can and does
write lucidly about such things. Here on Townhall she talks about the
opioid crisis, and includes some surprising numbers.
I particularly like her clarity when she writes:
"...I see an interesting parallel to the gun debate.
That is, the center of the deadly problem is with the disturbed user or perpetrator, rather than with the instrument -- whether it is a gun or a drug. The instrument is the result rather than the cause.
The first impulse, particularly in a highly materialistic and secular culture like ours, is to see the problem in the thing rather than the person, because that's the easiest approach."
End excerpt.
A NOTE FROM TIM:
Indeed she does nail it. I think it interesting, too, in the era where we are warned against "toxic masculinity" that it is the despised men (particularly white and uneducated) who are most at risk. You can only beat a dog so long before you beat any spirit out of it. The feminists have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at
03:47 PM
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