 Page 146 Subsection alcohol as scourge quote No other drug has had such a prolonged detrimental effect on human beings The struggle to produce control and tax alcohol to absorb its social consequences is a significant part of the story of the evolution of the mercantile empires of the 18th and 19th centuries Alcohol and slavery often went hand-in-hand across the economic landscape In many cases alcohol literally was slavery as the triangular trade of slaves sugar and rum and other practices of European civilizations spread over the earth subjugating other cultures Sugar and the alcohol that could be made from it became a European obsession That severely distorted the demographics of tropical regions For example in the Dutch East Indies now Indonesia Colonial policy policy paid women to produce as many children as possible in order provide to provide workers for the labor-intensive cultivation of sugar The modern legacy of this policy is that Java formerly the center of the Dutch East Indies is today the most overpopulated large island in the world most of the sugar ended up as Distilled alcohol and that was not exported to Europe was concerned and and what was not exported to Europe was consumed by the local population as quote Stotted underclasses and quote was a permanent fixture of mercantile society with whether in the home countries or the colonies and what of the psychology of alcoholism and alcohol use is there a Gestalt of alcohol and if there is then what are its characteristics? I have implied that alcohol is the dominant drug par excellent alcohol has the effect of being Libid Libidinally stimulating at moderate Dosis at the same time that the ego feels empowered and social boundaries are felt to lose some of their restraining power Often these feelings are accompanied by a sense of verbal facility Ordinarily out of reach the difficulty with all of this is that research findings Suggest these fleeting effects are usually followed by a narrowing of awareness a diminishing of ability to respond to social cues and an infant Tiled regression into loss of sexual performance loss of general motor control and consequent loss of self-esteem Moderation in drinking seems the obvious course yet alcoholism is a major on an Unremitting problem throughout global society. I believe that the alcohol abuse syndrome is Symptomatic of the state of this Disequilibrium and tension existing between men and women and between the individual and society Alcoholism is a condition of ego obsession and inability and inability to resist the drive towards immediate gratification the social domain in which the Repression of women and the feminine is most graphically and brutally realized is that of the drunken episode of lifestyle the dark darkest expressions of the terror and the anxiety in In engendered by severance from the maternal Matrix have traditionally been acted out acted out there Wife beating without alcohol is like a circus without lions and quote