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Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization: Edward Slingerland

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

CHAPTER

The Benefits of Alcohol

Drunk i walks you through the functional and important benefits of alcohol. It's estimated that up to 15 per cent of human population is prone to alcoholism. People have been producing and consuming alcohol for as long as we've been doing anything in an organized way as a species. The old story used to be that we discovered agriculture and then, kind of as a mistake, we stumbled upon alcohol. So this desire to alter our mind caused us to settle down in agricultural communities.

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