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>Putting yourself in their shoes does not imply you lose your own mind like that, it means that you imagine what YOU would do, if you were in their situation. It's not about trying to imagine yourself as being the exact same as they are, it's about imagining yourself as being in the same SITUATION. Nothing more than that.
Where am I losing my mind? If I were in their shoes-- that to say, if I were to have lived their experience, from pre-contact to contact to, lets at least say a few decades post-contact, I would probably be shattered by such a dramatic change in my way of life
If you were to take me right now as I am and just put me immediately post-contact, yeah no shit nothing would fucking change, but if I were in the shoes of someone who had my whole world changed in such a manner, as any reasonable person would have assumed I meant when reading my post, yeah I would probably have some issues
>I would laugh at the downfall of our retarded civilization
Sure, but having a laugh about it is nice, but It wouldn't exempt you from still needing to find a way to keep living in this suddenly changed world; unless you were planning to go down with the old civilization's ship you would still have to adapt to life in New Aryanearth
>No, it doesn't. We already have our own shit
The natives already had nicotine and various forms of caffeine, and had a fairly extensive culture of consumption for them-- liquor was something extremely novel and potent.
If Aryanaliens, who now control the largest aspects of our society introduced something novel and more potent to us; and by way of their new colonial presence here made it readily accessible, people would certainly take to it as well, regardless of how much we enjoyed booze or heroin before. Look at crack to blacks, HRT to programmers, fent to blue collar workers etc new waves of addiction could happen to any group with the introduction of any new drug.
