Suffer Harder, Drink Harder
The psychoanalytic logic behind the ecstasy of excess - and what came after
There are people out there who, somehow, forget to finish their drinks. These are people who leave a third of a beer at the bar, who pour half a glass of wine down the sink. Such people are beautiful mysteries to me.
I drank because… it worked. It made me less self-conscious, less inhibited, less afraid. It’s no mystery to me why people like it. What I …
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