Contest: The Big New Year's Quiz - The Results / Das Große Jahresanfangs-Quiz - Die Auswertung
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Hello, Dear Dreamers!
The Big New Year's Quiz turned out to be not quite so big – or too big for most users. I won't analyse it further...
The fact is, we have one participant and therefore one winner.
@dissi chose an interpretation of my suggestion that surprised me – I was curious about voluntary exits from society in literature and your own relationship to such extreme decisions. For Dissi, falling into drug addiction seemed to be the appropriate subject:
https://steemit.moecki.online/dream-steem/@dissi/drugs-the-way-out-from-society
And yes, he could be right. Anyone who is hardcore addicted to needles or cocaine or otherwise blows their mind away has left society behind. Society, for its part, is happy to shut them out. At least when they are poor and therefore publicly visible with their addiction problem...
What I'm not so sure about is the question of voluntarily opting out of ‘normality’. I mean, in the best case scenario, the first contact with a drug was voluntary. But no one just decides: I'm going to end up as a junkie on the street at Zoo Station, to make the connection to ‘Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo’ and Christiane F., which Dissi mentioned as a literary hook. Is the preliminary stage, the addiction that can (still) be hidden behind the bourgeois façade, a voluntary decision? I suspect not.
Nevertheless, I thank you for prompting me to reflect once again on the depths of human nature. And hey – there's 50 STEEM in the prize pool! You made the distribution extremely easy for me mathematically... Dissi – congratulations! I'll make the payment right away; you'll find a screenshot of the transaction in the comments section.
Of course, I had hoped for more participants, but the general winter fatigue, which I cannot entirely absolve myself of, cannot be denied. The lull on Steem does the rest...
Nevertheless, I wish you all a creative and fruitful 2026 with many wonderful ideas and good thoughts!
Yours, @weisser-rabe
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Hallo, liebe Träumer!
Das Große Jahresanfangs-Quiz hat sich als nicht ganz so groß herausgestellt – oder als zu groß für die meisten Nutzer. Will ich nicht weiter analysieren…
Fakt ist, wir haben einen Teilnehmer und damit einen Gewinner.
@dissi hat eine für mich überraschende Auslegung meiner Anregung gewählt – ich war an freiwilligen Ausstiegen aus der Gesellschaft in der Literatur und Euren eigenen Bezug zu solchen extremen Entscheidungen neugierig. Für Dissi schien der Sturz in eine Drogenabhängigkeit das passende Sujet:
https://steemit.moecki.online/dream-steem/@dissi/drugs-the-way-out-from-society
Und ja, damit könnte er recht haben. Wer hardcore an der Nadel hängt oder kokst oder sich sonstwie den Verstand wegballert, der hat die Gesellschaft hinter sich gelassen. Die Gesellschaft ihrerseits riegelt da auch gerne ab. Zumindest, wenn derjenige arm und damit öffentlich sichtbar ist mit seinem Suchtproblem…
Womit ich mir nicht so sicher bin, wäre die Frage des freiwilligen Ausstiegs aus dem „Normalen“. Ich meine, im besten Fall war der erste Kontakt mit einer Droge freiwillig. Aber niemand nimmt sich mal eben vor: ich lande als Junkie auf der Straße am Bahnhof Zoo, um den Bezug zu „Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo“ und Christiane F. herzustellen, die Dissi als literarischen Aufhänger nannte. Ist die Vorstufe dazu, die Abhängigkeit, die sich (noch) hinter der bürgerlichen Fassade verbergen läßt, eine freiwillige Entscheidung? Ich vermute, nein.
Nichtsdestotrotz danke ich Dir für den Anstoß, mal wieder über die Abgründe der menschlichen Natur nachzudenken. Und he – es liegen 50 STEEM im Preispool! Die Verteilung habt Ihr mir mathematisch extrem leicht gemacht… Dissi – ich gratuliere Dir! Die Auszahlung nehme ich gleich im Anschluß vor; den Screenshot der Transaktion findet Ihr im Kommentarbereich.
Natürlich hatte ich mir mehr Teilnahmen erhofft, aber die allgemeine Wintermüdigkeit, von der ich mich ja auch nicht ganz freisprechen kann, läßt sich eben auch nicht wegdiskutieren. Die Flaute auf dem Steem tut ihr übriges…
Trotzdem wünsche ich Euch allen ein kreatives und fruchtbares Jahr 2026 mit vielen schönen Ideen und guten Gedanken!
Euer @weisser-rabe
Dear @weisser-rabe,
thank you again for the contest and especially a BIG THANK YOU for the prize!
As you said, unfortunately no one other partecipated, sadly... It would've been interesting to read from other perspectives, but i'm still happy to have won the prize ;)
Yeah, it's a matter of interpretation, if a drug addiction counts as a voluntarly exit from society. As you said, the first try out is mostly voluntarly (or because the brain of a 14-16 years old isn't developed enough to make a good decision on that topic), the second one could also be voluntarly, but if it gets slowly to a everyday use it's probably not a voluntarly exit from society anymore, but more a matter of the addiction.
Fortunately there are many public services who can help those who got addicted, at least in my area. And also without them and my girlfriend i wouldn't have been able to quit for good. Even if it was mostly "just" weed i consumed, it still was a hard and long way to quit complete (more or less). And i even managed it pretty well with weed! Like some days ago i was at a friends house and he smoked a joint. And guess what? I was fine with that! Like i didn't heard from him in a long time - just last year we got in contact again, after he came back from his stationed withdrawal service in Venice. And he also told me this. Like when we last met some years ago i would've gone crazy when he smoked near me and i couldn't smoke. Yet i sat there on the second couch, while he smoked on the other and i didn't even lost a thought about making some hits too (last but not least because i still had to drive home by car, but still^^).
For the chemical stuff it was also really hard to never touch it again. Not because of everyday use, but because i can't go to a party anymore, no Serata and nothing. And i really loved those times! So it was harder to let go from that than from the substances per se ;)
Have a great weekend,
@dissi
Congratulations to you @dissi 🙏 even though I have decided to participate in this interesting contest a long time ago, I "couldn't" finish my writing until the contest end date...
I've already written a little, referring to Awung's book, Belenggu—A True Story of a Drug Addict. It's the dark journey of a man named Neru, who struggled hard and took a long time to return to his normal life with the help of his mother...
Drug addiction is a social phenomenon, not caused by promiscuity or easy access to drugs, but by limited thinking skills when considering a problem without a final solution. It's a forced escape due to the difficulty of neutralizing various problems.
Those closest to our are very competent to help, such as your mother, father, or other close relatives, as in your story.
Thank you!
And thanks for your input. You can still publish it, even if the contest is over, i would be interested to read your idea :) Just tag me if you decide to still post it, so i don't miss it ;)
One part are the limited thinking skills, but i'm sure the prohibiton also put it's money to the pot. Liek for me one big point why i did it was exactly because it's illegal. That's not a factor for not trying it out but a factor for especially trying it out (at least for me^^).
But mostly it was because of my thoughts. Like i got a long period where my thoughts drove me crazy: Everyday the same thoughts, the same topic, running in circles inside my head, always faster and faster. And when i smoked some weed, those thoughts suddenly were silence, i got other thoughts, and specially got a break from all this! Now i got medication which helps me a bit. I don't say it's for 100% the right medication, but at least i don't get those thoughts so fast inside my head, which is also a good help :)
Also i was curious about various substances since i was a little child (just don't ask me why, it was just as it was, i don't even have an answer to that question^^). So i wanted to try nearly everything because i was curious how substance X impacts my mind, my feeling, etc. But even if i consumed without any inhibition, there are still some (in comparsion "harmless") drugs i never tried - even if i had the chance to. Just because they don't interest me, like snooze (idk how it's called in your language, it's like nicotine but in packages which you put under your lips), poppers and another one, which don't get to my mind rn... Also i have no interest in trying Meth for example, still used it once, because it was cutted into my very first ecstasy-pill, which i didn't know back than.
I wouldn't say that my closest are very competend to help. Like the mother was mostly the reason i got into it and my father let me smoke my weed everyday on our terrace. But i must say my father pushed the public mental health service to some point where they were able to set the first step into a new life for me: I had a talk with the social worker there and she found some place to work for me, a so called working rehabilitation center. Sure, the work there wasn't great or very demanding, but it got me some structure/routine: I had to get up in the morning, going to "work" aka. that center. Was there for some hours, ate lunch there, "worked" a bit more and got back home, where i then was able to smoke my first joint of the day. Also that center found a real workplace for me, where i work since 4 years now. And i really love that place! Like first it was a bit strange, like i studied informatics and now i'm a book keeper. Still the informatic studies turned out helpful for that type of work^^
Here we go: