Posted on 02/05/2014 7:36:11 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Of all the stories written about the tragedy of the life of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman being cut short by heroin, the most bizarre has to be the article written by Lee "Sockpuppet" Siegel at the New Yorker. Unbelievably Siegel has actually found an upside to Hoffman's heroin addiction. He claims that it helped Hoffman's performances. I kid you not.
Here is Siegel coming close to glorifying substance abuse: "...the brute, ugly fact might also be that the poison was his elixir." If you think this quote was taken out of context, here is the entire paragraph which almost sounds like a paean to the artistic advantages of battling the demons of drug addiction:
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I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS!
Knock that off.
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If I understand heroin, after a time, you need it simply to live and it can be argued it created his ability to act why so much ink and air time is devoted to a drug addict amazes me.
and Dock Ellis could only throw a no-hitter on LSD....
It’s true that many great artists, actors, and musicians either drew their inspiration from their addictions or their creative energy came from a place so troubled and painful that they self medicated to ease the pain. There is a person in my life who is very creative and have shown amazing abilities when or maybe because he was drinking heavily. Think Pollack. Fortunately he has successfully fought those demons.
Liberals love the idea that something so vehemently opposed by conservative/ family popular culture could actually be good for people like them. It makes them feel more intellectual.
I love how anytime one of their own dies, immediately they brand him a “genius”. Yes, saying lines someone else wrote on film which gives you virtually an unlimited amount of takes to do it, automatically makes you a genius. Freakin’ asshats.
One of the topics that doesn’t get brought up much amid this whole dope-legalization topic is that we have media and a culture that actually signals that getting stoned is a good, positive, super-cool thing to do. It’s glamorized. It’s funny. No real downside is presented.
This dimwit writer takes it to a ludicrous extreme, of course. Not that it’s the first time the argument has popped up, though. I seem to recall reading of how a lot of budding jazz players in the late-40s were influenced into getting onto dope because they were so impressed by Charlie Parker and thought it would help get them onto that same aesthetic plane. Disasterous results, needless to say.
wonder how this could be true since supposedly Hoffman wasn’t doing heroin for 20 something years when he was doing his best roles?
I think you are correct.
I wonder how much was acting, and reality in the movie LOVE LIZA where he loses his wife and starts huffing gasoline, until he turns to model airplane glow fuel....
It’s the liberal mindset of the marginalizing of individualism. I.E., he was not a great actor because of his talent and individual achievement, but because of the heroin.....................
Exactly....and we liberals are so much wiser than you silly family-values rednecks because we know its all about luck and vice and nothing to do with your provincial ethics like hard work and Christian morality. Silly peasants.
I heartily agree, and I think that the president should start using heroin too.
I thought that Oakland As manager was high on something. Beane should’ve fired him.
well guess he is now giving the performance of a life time!
Drug users always think they’re at their most creative under the influence but once they get clean they realize that quite the opposite is true.
I always thought I was being pretty profound when I was getting high but looking back I see the ramblings of a moron.
It sure helped the Stones in their Gram Parsons period
Killed Gram though and dry cured Keith
For the music dude
Lou Reeds best stuff was on dope
And Ginger Bakers Cream Blind Faith work...
Not too shabby...course he still dopes
The Burroughs of rock
Phillip misjudged his doses....a peril of the addiction
Agree. The glorification is pathetic.
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