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

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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Social Drinking

Social drinking in most cultures is so surrounded with with ritual and all sorts of regulations, it's really it's a safety feature. It allows you to consume it if you was an individual. So the the humans have developed this kind of social safety net to help us consume alcohol safely. And that's why i think thats this trend toward drinking alone. We're not designed for that.

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