David Carr was obviously a wonderful man whose 'short' life evolved in a very humane and 'what do i know?' manner. His interminable search for meaning, for the 'best way' should be seen and 'felt' as worthwhile and real, and appreciated very much by all. His openness to experimentation i believe was admirable,
That such a personally involved and ever searching man as Carr could in the end still have this doubt
(the last bit, i mean) to me is one example of just how deeply the religious archetype is rooted in the human psyche. Living others will remember the dead with all sorts of mixed memories and memories will be set in marks one may have left, books, bridges, inventions, whatever. Some dead will live in those. All dead will live on in memories of those left living. So for mine always and irrevocably it will always be when one dies that's it. Period. When one dies physically, one dies. Surprise .. :) .. it is fatal. It is the end of the life. Shrug. Then what do we know, eh.
Carr is right when he says church gives community to many, and that is one obviously valid reason for it's existence. And any sensible person would agree with Carr here
"Carr also urged churches to help drug addicts rebuild their lives.
“The Church can do more than mitigate the gravest of these problems,” he wrote. “In my opinion, by demonstrating a willingness to minister to those afflicted with this disease, the Church becomes better … The Church has the proximity and the people to make a difference in what seems like an insoluble problem.”"
This is the bottom Related link in your first.
David Carr’s final truth about addiction: You never really beat it
By Terrence McCoy February 13 .. bits ..
That uneasy equilibrium — fast drugs, fast writing, fast living — was the defining conflict in the life of David Carr
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Can ambition vanquish addiction? It can, but as Carr learned time and again, it’s a war of many battles, each of which can go either way.
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That doesn’t mean that addiction was the one to disappear. Never that. Carr put back together his life piece by piece — kids, job, marriage — but he knew full well that an addict was always an addict. This was true even after Carr clawed his way to the top of the profession — and began drinking again. “Somewhere in the late nineties and into 2000, I stopped identifying myself as an alcoholic and an addict and began thinking of myself as someone who just didn’t drink or do drugs,” he wrote. From that point on, “it took about four years to make that nasty drink in my kitchen.”
I'm sorry i didn't know the man at all before his death. The stories of David Carr's search for fulfillment, for meaning, and for a solid, while rational (to him), psychological base was both a bit sad and a joy to read. Thanks heaps. He really did 'not know' about much as it should be for all, to the end.
I'm sorry his "fast" was proved to be too much of that fast, in the end. But without that David Car would not have been David Carr.
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