THE HAUNTED Frontman: 'Addiction Is A Used Car Salesman'

THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving has posted the following message on his MySpace blog:

"Addiction is a used car salesman. It don't give up just 'cause I ain't buying.

"Hell no.

"Instead it goes 'Awwwwwrightee then... Back to the drawing board...' Out come the bling. The little flags and the giant light bulb displays. It turns up on my TV singin' 'Come on down lil buddy! Have we got somethin fer you!'

"You might sit in your little futon converter couch smokin sweet bud chucklin at the sheer concept of addiction. 'Yeah, yeah right... fuckin crybabies.'

"Still, just cause you happen to be that dude who's not suckin syphilitic pimp dick in a room with needle sprayed blood on the walls, moldy mattresses and the mixed stink of vomit, chemical stress and cat piss filling the room — don't mean addiction ain't checkin out your white, middle-class, gym-toned ass. When you head out to the kitchen for a peanutbutter n jelly sandwich, singin along to some lame BURZUM tune; Diggin' the ridiculous wayward thought that 'THIS is actually great music!', ADDICTION is getting a hard-on. No, it doesn't mean you're an addict.

"Maybe 10-15% of the population are addicts.

"But addiction itself digs that bullshit.

"One can discuss the pros and cons of narcotics forever. But as long as someone is making money off our greedy hunger for relief from stress or pain and anxiety — narcotics, like religion, are always going to be a problem.

"A coca farmer in the South American jungle ain't to blame. Nor is the poppy farmer in Burma, or the Cannabis grower in Washington or Lebanon. As long as we chose keeping up with, and supporting an unbearably inhumane structure and culture — we will feel the need to escape it.

"Consumption itself (whatever the hell you choose buying),is so deeply rooted in this world. As evidence of and symbol for your 'freedom.' An elusive abstract based in an enviroment of slave economy — that we, little buddy, have become addicted to.

"It's funny and fucked up at once; like heroin helps alleviate the pain of some addicts — cash is the thing that makes perfect sense to most folks in abusing.

"Buy or die. Still — the consequences remain, for we never reach the core of the problem. No war on drugs or war on terror is going to change that. The real villains are the choices we make. The choices.

"We can't blame the mad scientist or crazed entrepeneurs, nor the corrupt politicians and legislators. Their basic incentives all come from somewhere.

"And THAT is our crime."