Cannabis doesn’t cause a lack of ambition, the 40-hour week does!

Stoned philosophy: Cannabis doesn’t cause a lack of ambition, the 40-hour week does.

We have covered the fact that there is no link between cannabis and what is known as “amotivation syndrome”. However, as one stoned philosopher so eloquently pointed out, the lack of ambition for life may have nothing to do with cannabis. The article entitled “Cannabis doesn’t make you ambitious, but the 40-hour week does” addresses the fact that deadlocked automatism is the motivation killer.

Some editors replied;

I’ve had several creative art, music, and poetic outpourings while high.

The 40-hour week was designed so that even when people realize they are being exploited, there is nothing they can do about it. – Forget the land above

And a Redditor posted a quote from the great Bill Hicks.

“You lie about marijuana. Telling you smoking weed makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you’re high, you can do whatever you normally do just as well – you just realize it’s not worth the damn trouble. There is a difference. “-Bill Hicks

While it’s true that smoking cannabis physically changes your brain, when there’s a drastic change in behavior, it’s not entirely chemically driven either. Sure, you may have more dopamine in your body, but a sudden lack of desire to “get into the routine” most likely also plays a major role.

The fact is, a large number of people just don’t enjoy the activities they do most of their time. In fact, according to some surveys, between 50% and 95% of people hate their jobs.

However, due to the necessities of life, these people are chained to their hapless occupation, which drains them of their life energy to keep the ethereal animal known as “their employer” fat and thriving. “The Company” – which has its own culture and protocols of conduct, demands weekly sacrifices of your time and energy in exchange for the illusion of security and a paycheck that thins with every new dollar that is printed.

Perhaps it’s not that weed makes you unmotivated to engage in these soul-sucking activities, but rather that you’re waking up to the magnitude of the “soul-sucking” and starting to consider whether your time might be better spent elsewhere.

Of course, the danger for someone in high school is that their only options are to grind their way through the soul-sucking activities they must endure, or drop out and be labeled a loser. I know that when I started smoking, I saw my grades drop, not because I couldn’t solve the problems—I just understood that certain subjects had no real-world application after high school. So I just did enough in those subjects to get a passing grade.

Some might argue that this is myopia because a lower grade point average would decrease my chances of getting into college, but by the time I graduated from high school, I didn’t know what I wanted to spend the next four years of my life “studying.”

Also, life threw me a few curveballs during my high school years that forced me to make certain life choices that helped me get to where I am today. Nowadays I smoke weed and wake up at 5am to do my chores because I really care about what I’m doing.

However, the vast majority of workers are not so lucky. Stuck in call centers, office cubicles, and thousands of low-paying, soul-sucking jobs that barely make them enough money to make ends meet, forcing them to use credit to sustain a lifestyle beyond their means, which in turn makes them slaves to their debtors.

This way of living makes it easy for the subconscious to go on autopilot. While routine is something that can help us become more efficient and productive, if the routine doesn’t change, the brain starts to loop. It just “walks by the reins” and it even seems that we are becoming consciously less conscious.

In the absence of inner contentment or a sense of doing something “bigger than oneself,” people simply engage in their survival routine with complete dispassion, sacrificing their spiritual well-being for material stability. As a result, the “mind” begins to suffer, which usually results in people finding ways to experience “bliss” in artificial ways – drugs, sex, games, gambling.

However, when you start using cannabis, it changes the way you deal with your reality. Some people say, “If you’re smoking weed, it’s okay to do nothing…” but that’s not entirely true. A more accurate statement would be, “Making weed shifts perspective to see “doing nothing” in a different light.” However, if you do nothing even while under the influence of weed, you will eventually slip into the “lifeless loop of routine.” return and the opportunity for change that cannabis offers would be wasted.

Why I call it “opportunity” is simple – if you’re stuck in a survival loop (i.e. working to survive at the expense of spiritual well-being), cannabis can offer you a small window to reassess your behavior and initiate changes in your life . Does this mean that you may lose interest in the activities you are currently engaged in? Probably… but that’s a good thing.

It’s natural for your likes and dislikes to evolve in tandem with your perception, but when you’re stuck in a survival loop you don’t have the ability to evolve, which means your likes and dislikes stagnate. You keep repeating the same actions without any conscious thought. If cannabis helps you reevaluate your likes/dislikes of a particular action…rather than seeing it as a “loss of motivation” and seeing it more as an “introduction to new routines.”

This new behavioral dynamic, fueled by a new interest, will ultimately impact your life by allowing you to escape the loop and live a life worth living.

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