We're being indoctrinated, alright. But that's just the current line of BS that the party of the rich are spewing so that they can justify making everyone BUT the rich pay for the excessive greed and stupidity that they and their cronies have perpetrated on the U.S. economy. They stole a ton of money, and ran us into massive debt, and now they don't want to pay for what they've done, so they're trying to convince us that it's all our own fault, because we are "enabling the poor (who are, to them, weak)".
And because you hate weakness (being the pinnacle of strength and self-will that you are) you have fully and completely bought into their slander and lies.
But back to the subject at hand.
Very few addicts are ever able to stop practicing their addiction on their own. Most of the people who claim they have done so, never achieved full-blown addiction. Or as Buzzword pointed out, were likely not fighting a genetic predisposition for their addiction, as well as the addiction, itself.
Addictions are insidious and progressive. They are insidious because in the beginning, when you do have the power to say no, you can't see the harm in it, because there is little harm in it at that time, to see. And by the time you realize that you're over-indulging and that's it's becoming harmful, you are already in the grip of the addiction and you either can't stop, in spite of yourself, or the urge to continue is so much stronger than your sense of the danger that you just don't care. Eventually it will get so bad that all you want in the world is to stop, and you try, and try, and try, and you fail and fail and fail. And each time you fail, you lose more hope, and you fall deeper into the shame it. Which only makes you want to drink again, all the more, to make it all go away.
In the beginning you do it because it's fun, and you really enjoy it. In the end you seek oblivion. And along the way you will sacrifice everything you love for it.
