The Emperor's New Clothes syndrome is never more apparent than when it surfaces in unearned guilt and shame of stopping drinking alcohol - AKA "Admitting you have a problem with alcohol".
Maybe if we all admitted that society has a problem with alcohol, we'd all be in a much better place - certainly a much healthier place.
Imagine a world where people sorted and sifted through their problems instead of trying to hide from them with one drug or another. Imagine a world where reasonable people used thought to control emotion and emotion to motivate living the best possible version of themselves. Imagine a world where people took personal responsibility as one of their highest values and lived through self-created tenets that were designed to extract the most meaning and importance from every waking moment. What a world that would be.
