Snakes Eating Their Own Tails

Balance is a tricky subject. It contains itself in an odd way. If you look at the world in a vacuum and use language to describe it, there exists opposing forces. Binary language only represents something the entire world has already been made of long before it was invented. Everything that can be described is only a sliding scale between two opposing extremes that never exist. It's like infinity, you never reach it, but it exists as a concept to give you some kind of inkling where 100,000 is in relation to other numbers.

Anyway, balance is the most ridiculous pole in this equation. You use the word balance to talk about other polar opposites. The balance between good and evil. The balance between light and dark. The balance between best and worst.

But now you also have to place balance on an axis of its own with its polar opposite being chaos. So now you have to find the balance between balance and chaos: a balance between balance? wrap your mind around that. Its a never ending cycle. Try to get to infinity.

Bending the Brain

The existence of infinity causes drug use.

My theory: The duel between finite and infinite causes the human fascination with drugs. The human brain is finite and can only perceive and understand finite things. Our thoughts and reasoning are dwarfed by anything infinite. It is quite literally beyond our brain's true comprehension. But the knowledge of its existence causes a splinter in our thoughts. We strive to see what is impossible for us to see. This paradox is at the core of why human beings are drawn to tools that change the way our body chemistry and our brain function.

Human beings are obsessed with mind alteration. Somehow, someway, people will find a way to change the way they think based on the fact that they can only see through one perspective, and therefore, crave another. This craving has led to many things in this world, but I think the biggest effect it has had is creating humanity's obsession with drugs. Everyone I've met who doesn't use drugs (and that includes alcohol and caffeine) has always had some other "drug" to make up for it. Sex, love, religion, etc.

I'm not here to pass judgment on whether drugs are good or bad. Drugs, like guns, aren't the inherent problem, but all in how you use them and who is using them. My fascination lies more in the fascination they cause humanity.