Many self-medicate. But only the ones that are not psychopaths.
Good on you for choosing to quit the numb and re-enter the fray.
Stupid can't be fixed, sadly, but ignorant can.
Of course. Degradation and humiliation, loss and pain. They love that. They laugh in cruel joy at those they destroy.
Losing a loved one to addiction is a great sorrow. Having that loved one back is a great gift and a call to celebrate.
It takes real stones to come out of addiction.
Roundup is glyphosate, an organophosphanate. Agent Orange is a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D (chlorophenols). Completely different compounds, linear versus cyclic, completely different mechanisms of action.
However, both are Monsanto products, although the Orange was not exclusively produced by Monsanto (9 companies involved in VN wartime production).
Just do a wikipedia search for sauce.
My opinion, he shot the phone because that was the source of the "push." Fighting the programming -not a killer of others. Commit self-murder was probably the last order in the series, used all his willpower to not kill anyone else. Succumbed to last order.
Just my opinion.
Yes. That 80% that are phone zombies. The ones that are so completely programmed that when you try to have an intelligent conversation, they just look at you like, "Whu?"
Those are the ones waiting to be triggered. I think either they are being held in abeyance as a final play of a massive zombie apocalypse type scenario, or else there is no way to do a mass trigger, so daily weirdness as they are triggered one by one instead - drip drip drip.