Euphoria without reason.

We drug sadness instead of changing the conditions that produce it. Chemical euphoria: confession of lives that give no real reasons for joy.

Euphoria without reason.

Party substances reveal the celebratory poverty of our time. When circumstances don't justify joy, chemistry manufactures it by pharmacological decree. MDMA, cocaine, and amphetamines artificially construct states that once emerged from real events: shared triumphs, loving encounters, collective achievements. Today we celebrate celebration itself, emptied of content but chemically inflated to simulate plenitude.

This euphoric demand denounces a structural deficit: we live lives that don't generate authentic reasons for joy. Like actors who need stimulants to play happy characters, we resort to drugs that allow us to feel what our concrete existences don't provide. The paradox is brutal: chemicals designed to intensify extraordinary experiences now compensate for the absence of experiences worthy of intensification.

The phenomenon reveals how late capitalism produced subjects who must consume their own emotional states. We no longer wait for life to provide us reasons for joy; we directly purchase joy disconnected from its natural causes. Contemporary parties are laboratories where artificial moods are experimented with, simulacra of celebration that confirm precisely the absence of that which would deserve to be celebrated.

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