She was a dancer of some sort at this time, in Florida. I think he kept her doped up as a way to get with her and then to keep her with him.

From the micro to the macro human behavior follows the same patterns. Only, the imperial powers weren’t just keeping China addicted to opium as they defied laws to import chests of the stuff into their country. They were growing addicted themselves to their

standard of living

and the violence required to support it.

By the way fentanyl comes from China, just putting it out there.

The very product that’s causing our spike in overdoses in the United States is coming from the country which the

world powers humiliated

a century and a half earlier using these same tactics. Just saying.

Power has always been the real addiction.