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Drugs are substitutes employed by those who cannot wait.
The substitute is that which cannot satisfy without destroying the capacity for discrimination of the real from the false.
Whatever is falsely employed as a substitute for the real, is transformed thereby into a poison for the mind.
The substitution of that which is peripheral to action instead of that which is central must cause imbalance.
Imbalance is betrayed by the resort of the helpless to an assumption of omnipotence.
Immaturity, confusion, helplessness and impotence are replaced, in those who are intolerant of frustration, by prematurity, order, omnipotence and power.
That which should be a prelude to action is replaced by action; action is replaced by what should have preceded it.
Hubris is the sin of Oedipus, the planners of the Tower of Babel, Adam and Eve, the animal that uses action as a substitute for thought, and thought as a substitute for action (not a prelude to it).
Craving for fulfilment, unlike pursuit of fulfilment, announces the existence of a vacancy (minus).
Areas of turbulence centre on a messianic idea.