Honey Bees and Junkies

The reason 'The Junkie' is so reviled, so despised is because he reminds humanity of the futillity, the utter absurdity of life, the pointlessness of endeavour, he is the silent inner emptiness in us all that we construct games and rituals to avoid his overbaring truth. The savagery of any punishment is proportional to the fear of the act; the modern day drug addict is rejected as the lowest a man can fall - otherwise why does a gesture so private inspire such terror and superstition.