Paul Gootenberg on the Global History of Drugs
PSYCHOACTIVE
00:00
The Acceleration of Drugs
As capitalism speeds up our everyday lives and consumption becomes more and more speeded and needed especially stimulants become part of everyday lives the acceleration process takes on a life of its own so drugs do become more powerful. As alcohol used to be very low grade with new distilling techniques in nineteenth century you can make whiskies and beyond that are just basically all alcohol which creates social problems in its wake. You know if if coca if coffee coffee had emerged the other way what might this history have been different? I think corporate elaborated on this is somehow it has an elective affinity to use Weber's term with capitalism as capitalism Speed Up! by David Frum starts at 9 p.m. ET
Transcript
Play full episode
