On Alcohol's Utility

Why Civilization Needs Alcohol

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

The Civilizational Drink

Alcohol is dead and you have killed it! You, the cautious optimizer. You, the sterile class. You, the frightened moralist. In your quest to avoid risk, you’ve banished revelry.…