if there is anything to characterise the West , in the last 100 years, it must surely be this.

The US seems to be awash with people hooked on something or other. It could be a pharamceutical....legal or otherwise. Or it could be any of the following....

- food
- gambling
- shopping
- sex
- booze
- exercise
- other

Look at history documentaries or other sources. Sure, there were individuals with some addictions...especially booze. But surely not at the levels we are seeing today ?

what does it all mean ?

Eze Peasy at Anfield....

ranting at an anonymous public online is also an addictive behaviour. True. There is certainly an example of that on the other Palace fansite.

what proportion of the fellas in your local bookies are totally addicted and in there all the time ?

Eze Peasy at Anfield....

I speak as an alcoholic, probably spare time on their hands is the glib answer?.

Alcoholism was a recognised problem as far back as the Georgian time look at Hogarth's paintings Gin Lane and Beer Street. I am reading a book about William Pitt The Younger he drank 3 bottles of port a day.

People did not have a decent life expectancy and died young with no proper diagnose and no central records. Society also didn't care it was the Victorians that changed that perception.

In short addition has always been their just hidden from view.

One more point

Yup there is plenty of evidence that food manufacturers knew this back in the 1950's and like tobacco kept quite about it.

Sugar intake increased post war with the rise in convenience food.

One more point

Internet addiction is a new problem, and steroid addiction,

Seems gambling alcohol and drug addictions are not the usual ones anymore. And you can add p*** as well as its so easy to access 😀

exercise.

i knew a skinny fitness instructor. She must have done 18 hours of workouts per day. Everybody told her to reign it in.

RiP.

Eze Peasy at Anfield....