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The weird thing with alcohol is that if aliens came to Earth tomorrow and saw humans drinking this drug that's destroying their life , they'd probably think that we're insane . And the thing is is that it is insane , Drinking alcohol makes no logical sense at all , and the reality is is that we are suffering with mass delusion .
And today I am going to break down four disgustingly shocking truths about alcohol .
So if you've been struggling to control your drinking and you've always found it hard like you have to resist alcohol , then you need to see this video , because once you understand these truths , once you can see these individual things , light bulbs are going to start flashing in your head like whoa , I get it now . So let's get into the first shocking truth .
So just for a second , imagine that there was an alternate universe . Imagine you woke up tomorrow . Right , everything's the same around you , your friends are the same , your house is the same , your beds are the same . You still live in the same area , but you've actually woken up in an alternate universe and it's Friday night . You go out to the bar .
You know you're going to go and see your friends , but there's something different in this bar . You look behind there and you don't see any alcohol . You're like this is weird . You see this thick blue bottle and you look a bit closer and you realise these are massive bottles of bleach .
And then you look to the right and you see all your friends there in a circular table and they're all cheersing each other and you know they're drinking their drinks . And you're like okay , you walk over to the table , you sit down and then , in the middle of the table , what is it ?
Well , they've all got their drinks and some Coca-Cola , but there's no alcohol , it's just a bottle of bleach . And then , as soon as you sit down , your friend grabs the bleach , pours a little bit into the drink , gets the Coca-Cola , puts it in there , goes hey , nice to see you . And you're like whoa , whoa , whoa , whoa , whoa , I'm not drinking this .
Like are you crazy ? This is going to kill . But if that friend from the alternate universe came into our universe and saw people drinking ethanol right , ethanol and they were diluting this ethanol and drinking it . What do you think he would do ? He would think you are insane . He'd say , why would you drink this ?
I mean , it's poisonous , it's going to kill you . This is the world that we live in , right ? We have normalized drinking a small amount of ethanol and we've normalized it to such a point that we give it to kids on their 18th or 21st birthday . It's in pretty much every movie you ever watch . I mean , it's everywhere . And this is the first shocking truth .
We have normalized drinking a toxic substance , despite knowing its dangers . But when you really think about what alcohol is , how is it different to bleach ? But the only difference is that alcohol is pretty much the same stuff , but the difference is that people are addicted to it , so nobody's going to question it . So let's dive into the second truth .
So if we lived in a world today where all the other drugs were legal , right , just imagine for a second . Every drug in the world was legal . It was controlled by the government , it was all made in a laboratory , they highly taxed it , and you could go into this pharmacy , right , and you could buy anything you wanted .
But the thing is is that it was the neat version of the drug . You'd go in there and everything was available , but you could only buy 100% purity . But then there'd be something in the corner of that store that nobody ever touched because it would have a warning sign on it .
It would say danger Sure , all these other drugs are bad for you , but this one in the corner . If you drink this bottle , you will go blind , you will die . Now I'm sure there'd be some crazy people that would still buy that drug , but most of the population would be terrified of it .
They'd think , whoa , I mean , okay , there's these drugs , but that one , I'm not going near that . We live in a world where drinking a diluted poison that if you drink enough of it , it will kill you , it will put you in a coffin . There is no question about that . We live in a world where drinking 10% of that poison's okay , 5%'s okay .
How does that make any sense ? How does drinking 5% of something that can put you six feet under make any sense to anybody ? Well , it doesn't make sense . It makes no sense at all .
But the problem is is that if you never wake up to this , if you never see it , then you kind of just live your life with this fog over your eyes where you can never see clearly . Listen , drinking alcohol is not normal , it's been normalized . So let's get into the third truth .
So I don't know about you , but when I was drinking alcohol , I would sometimes drink wine . Right , I wouldn't drink wine very often , but if I'd ever drink red wine with a meal , there was always this thought in my head of like , I mean , wine's good for you , right ?
And it's weird because even though you know it's not right , even though you know it's ethanol , it still is there in your head that it could be healthy , right , it could be good for you . I mean , don't Italians drink wine and live longer ? Or ?
You know we've seen those studies that come up on the media that wine drinkers have a longer life expectancy if they only drink a small amount . And the reason why this is a thing is because of resveratrol . This is the compound that could have these health benefits that we can get in a bit of grape juice .
So imagine , for a second right , that you had a supplement like a I don't know codfish oil , whatever it's called fish liver oil , and sure you knew scientifically that there was a benefit to taking this cod liver oil . The only caveat is , every time you took the cod liver oil you had to drink a pint of washing up liquid . Imagine that . Would you do that ?
Would you do that to get the very small benefit from the cod liver oil and then drink a pint of washing up liquid ? If somebody told you that that was a good idea , they'd probably be locked up in a psychiatric ward . We'd think that they're crazy .
But we've got multi-billion pound and multi-billion dollar companies that are pushing this message upon us all the time that somehow a small amount of poison is okay . Straight madness , straight nonsense , the stupidest thing somebody could think . I'm telling you one thing Alcohol does not do anything for your heart .
It damages your heart as well as every other cell in your body . It pretty much wrecks havoc on your entire organ system and somehow a small amount of that is okay , I mean . Anyway . Let's get to the fourth and final truth . When we look at how alcohol is portrayed , what do we see ? We see glamour , we see success , we see happiness , we see camaraderie .
We see a lot of positive imagery . We find our favourite characters in a TV series or a movie . You know the best person , the charismatic , the smooth one , having a sip and listen . If alcohol did what it said on its tin , if it actually made you behave this way , then , hey , I wouldn't even make this channel . It would make sense to drink .
The problem is is it doesn't do this . See , why do we never see an advertisement of a woman with two black eyes ? Why do we never see an advertisement of somebody that's fallen asleep in the middle of the street in a busy city and been peed on ? Why don't we see a kid that's having to lie at school and say uh , uh , yeah , my mum doesn't drink ?
Why don't we see somebody in a DUI ? Why don't we see somebody in a car accident ? Why do we see something completely different ? Why don't we see reality ? Because these things happen . You're not doubting this . You know this . You know that alcohol damages people and destroys lives . Yet how many times have you seen an alcohol company say this ?
No , what we get told to do is drink responsibly . How can any responsible person drink alcohol ? It's the most irresponsible thing ever . We get told by the government to drink the recommended daily allowance , not the minimum unrecommended dose . No , we get a recommended daily allowance . We're not talking about calories or protein here . We're talking about a poison man .
Honestly , making this video is getting me angry . Listen , alcohol is doing nothing for you . It isn't helping you in any way . You've got to see through the lies , see through the madness , see reality . See alcohol for what it is . Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking Podcast by Sober Clear If you want to learn more about how we work with .