we're not the system, we bring the system to live. the system is an underlying self regulating ruleset that came out wrong. for anything i buy i have to pay 15-80% taxes, they steal more than half of my life without giving me anything back. there's 10 people out of a million poor that share the wealth. crackjunkies on welfare are fine with me, i would rather point my finger at the circumstances that cause it. something deep within the society is sick and therein lies the real problem. whether it helps you to go against the minority or not, it won't cure anything. since you're talking about mirrors, junkies embody the distorted mirror image of society.
They don't give you anything back? Libraries, public (although sadly deteriorating) health care, pension, public transportation, waste disposal, water, elementary schooling; Are these not worth paying for? And the list goes on. Police (although not always friendly), state health insurance, fire departments, unemployment benefits, student benefits, low income housing benefits... Don't you ever say they take your taxes and give nothing back. Just because you can't see, don't use or won't notice it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I do confess that my analysis (in short, system = you) does not really extend to countries such as the UK or the US, where the power is traditionally in the hands of those who come from wealthy backgrounds and attend the finest schools. In more democratic and less plutocratic countries those who define our policies are more often than not in no other way special from me or you, except that they chose to pursue politics as a career. The only reason things do not change is because we, the people, are too snug and fucking lazy to either vote for people who actually believe, not just say they do, in a more equal world, or to join in the process ourselves. Too bad nobody considers a vote a long-term investment. Your definition makes the system a faceless automaton, but every part of that machine is a living person, who chooses to be at his current position. Twenty years from now the system here will be upheld at least in part by people I knew when I was young, possibly even my former classmates. Even if they want to upkeep the exploitative and subjugative model, they are still people and they are still my peers even then. Thus, the society is born of us, and maintained by us. Thinking oneself apart from it while still living in it is rather self-righteous.
As for revolutions, they don't really work out in the long run , because if we follow a leader or a standard instead of having the message in ourselves, we elevate them and once again what could be seen as modern feodalism prevails. Most people who scream slogans against the current system have no real alternatives for it, and their lashing is born out of frustration and unability to do anything. Too bad this doesn't work, since the current model integrates most of the would-be dissidents and finds them something more cozy to do than standing in the rain demanding whatever the current trendy demand happens to be. True social revolution was really close in western europe during the seventies, in the form of radical left youth groups. They were flattened, crushed or assimilated, and ironically many current economical power players used to be communists. Subversion is so much harder and takes a lot longer time, but the results will last longer.
As for junkies being mirrors, themoles is correct. They are the perfect reflection of a hedonistic society that values a moment's pleasure over anything else. There are 6 billion people on earth, and only 1,4 billion of them are considered to be on good enough economical standing to be called consumers (a very, very offending word). The rest don't have a choice between work and the couch - their choice is between work and early grave.
There is indeed something wrong deep in the current western society model: us. We can dream of better things all we want, but the bastards among us have learned to do rather than dream. If the model seems skewed, we have the tools to fix it. Gotta pick up the hammer and get to work.
At this point, it would be so easy to attack me with the question, "well, what the hell have you done?" And the answer is, sadly, not enough, at least by my standards. Fortunately there's still time.
Todayisfine, you spoke about life goals. I absolutely agree that they are important, and that people should try to find theirs. Maybe then we would see more content and happy people instead of those turning to chemical means of making themselves either or both.
Oops... that was one very long derail.
) door jongeren op feesten, toen het alleen nog onder psychiaters verspreid werd... toen werd het onder de wat meer open mensen in therapeutische sessies best vaak gebruikt. vooral om barrieres te doorbreken en mensen makkelijker over zichzelf te laten vertellen en beter in contact met diepere gevoelens te laten komen. lsd was wat trickier geloof ik (heb t boek van snelders thuis liggen, staat in de planning om gelezen te worden) maar in het algemeen was men erg entoesjast over deze (relatief veilige) drug. 
