Why Celebrate Drug Addicts?

[FelixDeCat]

I think he's really the exception rather than the rule. Lots of bands were at most creative during periods of addiction. The Stones for example.

I could not be more opposed to drug use. Everyone knows this.

However, my favorite Stones album is Sticky Fingers, which includes this gem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Morphine

The studio version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtz8qZz6s8s

Unplugged Jagger version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mew9FP0nf8U (heard for the first time today, pretty cool)

 

[airdata]

We owe alot of our cultural advances to drugs. Without people out in the entertainment industry using drugs we'd still be watching silent movies.

 

[SKORPI0]

We celebrate their contribution to society as an artist/musician, not their private lives. At lot of celebrities end up taking this bad habit of taking drugs and alcohol, maybe be cause of their sudden fame and loss of privacy or bad influence from those so called "friends' of theirs. Some are able to adjust and survive, a lot of them not. Everyone knows how they eventually end up.... dead.

Almost the same way Michael Jackson was looked up as the "King of Pop", but in his private life liked little boys. :sneaky:

Shows you that fame and fortune cannot buy real happiness.

 

[Vic Vega]

there are a hundreds of druggies dying every day, no one gives a shit about them.

I guess that's kind of the point, of those hundreds of druggies, how many were anywhere near Houston's level of success?

 

[alien42]

I could not be more opposed to drug use. Everyone knows this.

does that include prescription and over the counter drugs?

 

[airdata]

does that include prescription and over the counter drugs?

How about alcohol too?

 

[alien42]

How about alcohol too?

i would include alcohol and tobacco both as OTC drugs

 

[Squisher]

Spoken like someone who truly does not understand drug addicts. They selfishly wreck everyone and everything around them. They wreck their families, their friends, they steal from people they know and from society. Then when they ruin their bodies and minds they drain society further racking up gigantic medical bills all with cries for pity for their terrible disease. SCREW their disease. I deal with drug addicts every day and I'm sick of the way our society enables and coddles them. I agree with the OP. Don't care one bit about Whitney Crackhead except to maybe serve as an example to others like her.

In many ways I agree with you. No one should celebrate destructive behavior. However, that doesn't mean we can't celebrate the good things in their life. As someone who is flawed, I can sympathize with flaws in others. That doesn't mean in any way that we need to cut them any slack when we deal with them. Just like I hope others don't cut me slack over my shortcomings.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

I guess that's kind of the point, of those hundreds of druggies, how many were anywhere near Houston's level of success?

You call someone dying at 48 because of drugs a success story?

 

[zanejohnson]

who cares if she used drugs, i used drugs, leads to complications... doesn't change the fact that she was a human and people enjoyed her music....

 

[Mxylplyx]

She left her mark in history as one of the greatest female vocalists of her generation. What the hell have you done?

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

who cares if she used drugs, i used drugs, leads to complications... doesn't change the fact that she was a human and people enjoyed her music....

thats the point. What about all the other ones that die everyday cause of it

 

[zanejohnson]

thats the point. What about all the other ones that die everyday cause of it

van gogh was batshit crazy, cut his ear off... still a great artist no?

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

She left her mark in history as one of the greatest female vocalists of her generation. What the hell have you done?

A wasted talent yes.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

van gogh was batshit crazy, cut his ear off... still a great artist no?

Yes and we all cried over the Internet about it.