I have to backtrack a bit.
Where I live, the coke & alcohol were subculturally intertwined and it's
impossible to tell which caused the befuddlement/incoherency.
On the west coast, alcohol use even intermingled with the hippie LSD
crowd, something I didn't see much of in the East, with the more
Leary-esque 'set and setting' model of exploring 'inner-space'.
I will say that I know multiple 10s of people who partied too hardy on
powders, and later in life became more daft than was apparent at the
time... Including one close friend who can walk away from a cooking
project in the kitchen and forget that he was ever there.
He's just one of dozens of examples around me that come to mind.
He's 54 years old. Approximately my age.
I lived with him for a while a few years ago.
Cheap rent in return for keeping him from burning his house down.
He was aware that he had done serious damage to his thought-processes.
Also to be noted. Many folks go back to their party lifestyles when the
kids grow up, or life responsiblities slack off, but they aren't
teenagers anymore.
Their physio-biological recovery from hard partying isn't what it used
to be, and many folks who did... ok... all things considered, when they
were younger, find themselves 'fried' in short order when they return to
that lifestyle later.
I see that quite often with the coke and crank crowd.
Leigh
Michael Perelman wrote:
I was also impressed, but he was speaking according to his talking points.
Also,
your friend, M. C. Miller, might be right that he is coherent when he speaks
about
his strong beliefs and incoherent when he is insincere.
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:13:22AM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
On Feb 4, 2007, at 6:53 AM, Colin Brace wrote:
I see this asserted on a regular basis -- but is it true? Do we know
for certain that he didn't speak this way when he was 21?
He didn't speak this way when he was in his 40s. Search for video
clips of his gubernatorial debates with Ann Richards.
Doug
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