Disclaimer: I’ve been over 18 for only 10 months, which might explain why I find some of this stuff so mind blowing and amazing. Bear with me. I’m new here.

I just got home from a party where I had a tiny bit more to drink than I usually do. Naturally, when I get home an idea I get is to blog about it. May iPhone’s autocorrect guide me well tonight.

It’s no secret that when you get intoxicated, you do crap you usually wouldn’t do. Dancing, screaming, shouting at people that irritate you and threatening to burn down their homes. You know, the usual.

Some people are interested in getting acquaintances drunk because they believe it reveals the “true self” of a person, without inhibitions and reservations. This is bullcrap. The thing is, the removal of inhibitions does not constitute the revealing of a person’s 100% ‘true’ character. No. Those reservations (ha! Autocorrect wanted to change that to ‘desecrations’. Amusing) are actually part of a person’s identity. If not, you could basically say that every person’s true self was made of their primal desires and actions when not confronted with social norms or etiquette.

Instead of thinking of alcohol as a removing factor, that is, an element that TAKES AWAY things like fear or embarrassment, it’s actually an adding factor. Due to our society and generation’s perception of alcohol, drinking GIVES you permission to be a loud and obnoxious wanker on top of all the fear and reservation, which will return the following morning.

What’s the point of this post? Is it because I want to point out that the rise
of certain technologies and attitudes do not naturally reveal essences of human nature (technological/symptomatic determinism. I forget which one. My Networked tute finished 11 hours ago)?

Or is it because I’m trying to justify yelling at all of the birthday girl’s friends tonight for not dancing to the filthy bangers I was playing when I was DJing?

You decide.

Or not, you have some agency, after all.