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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (51599)	10/12/2002 9:02:49 PM
From: spiral3	Respond to of 281500

The Sullen Majority article mentions "drugs" as a "Western form of escape." Funny you picked this up because for me too this impression seemed odd. After your post I took a second look and the only place the word Western is used is in the caption to one of the photos. In the article itself Tim Judah talks more about the problems of Modernity, which is a looser term than Western, and is a word which closely points to your observation I doubt there are many things that cut across cultural boundaries more than escapism through drug abuse in one form or another. it could well be that when the nytimes bought the images from SABA, the pictures came with one line captions which were used straight up, obscuring the nuance that Judah had in the article. Quite likely that he never even saw this juxtaposition until it was printed. I'm sure the Chinese would have a word to say about that, given their experiences dealing with the opium trade. indeed, big time commercialization of drug traffic around the world historically was a Western thing, another weapon in another war in another time in another place.