Publication
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
ISBN
9780316453387
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CONTENTS
1. Why Do We Get Drunk?
Brain Hijack: Porn and Sexually Starved Fruit Flies / Evolutionary Hangovers: Drunken Monkeys, Liquid Kimchee, and Dirty Water / More Than Twinkies and Porn: Beyond Hangover and Hijack Theories / A Genuine Evolutionary Puzzle: An Enemy in the Mouth That Steals Away the Brain / A Genetic Mystery: We Are Apes Built to Get High / A Cultural Mystery: Prohibition's Strange Failure to Take Over the World / Pickles for the Ancestors?
2. Leaving The Door Open For Dionysus
The Human Ecological Niche: Creative, Cultural, Communal / The Creative Animal / The Cultural Animal / The Communal Animal / Regaining the Child's Mind / The Drunken Mind / Leaving the Door Open for Dionysus
3. Intoxication, Ecstasy, And The Origins Of Civilization
A Visit from the Muse: Intoxication and Creativity / Chemical Puppies: Turning Wolves into Labradors / The Chemical Handshake: In Vino Veritas / Puking and Bonding / Liquid Ecstasy and the Hive Mind / Political Power and Social Solidarity / Cultural Group Selection
4. Intoxication In The Modern World
Whiskey Rooms, Saloons, and the Ballmer Peak / Truth Is the Color Blue: Modern Shamans and Microdosing / Why Skype Didn't Eliminate Business Travel /Office Parties: Pros and Not Just Cons / Long Live the Local / Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beer Holder: Sex, Friendship, and Intimacy / Collective Effervescence: Tequila Shots and Burning Man / Ecstasy: Vacation from the Self / It's Only Rock-n-Roll: Defending the Hedonistic Body / It Is Time to Be Drunk
5. The Dark Side Of Dionysus
The Puzzle of Alcoholism / The Problem with Liquor: An Evolutionary Mismatch / Isolation: The Danger of Drinking Alone / Distillation and Isolation: The Twin Banes of Modernity / Drunk Driving, Bar Fights, and Venereal Disease / Beer Goggles and Violence Against Women / Outsiders and Teetotalers Not Welcome: Reinforcing the Old Boys' Clubs / Solace or Wedge? Reinforcing Bad Relationships / Drunk on Heaven: Getting Beyond Alcohol? / Taming Dionysus / Living with Dionysus.
1. Why Do We Get Drunk?
Brain Hijack: Porn and Sexually Starved Fruit Flies / Evolutionary Hangovers: Drunken Monkeys, Liquid Kimchee, and Dirty Water / More Than Twinkies and Porn: Beyond Hangover and Hijack Theories / A Genuine Evolutionary Puzzle: An Enemy in the Mouth That Steals Away the Brain / A Genetic Mystery: We Are Apes Built to Get High / A Cultural Mystery: Prohibition's Strange Failure to Take Over the World / Pickles for the Ancestors?
2. Leaving The Door Open For Dionysus
The Human Ecological Niche: Creative, Cultural, Communal / The Creative Animal / The Cultural Animal / The Communal Animal / Regaining the Child's Mind / The Drunken Mind / Leaving the Door Open for Dionysus
3. Intoxication, Ecstasy, And The Origins Of Civilization
A Visit from the Muse: Intoxication and Creativity / Chemical Puppies: Turning Wolves into Labradors / The Chemical Handshake: In Vino Veritas / Puking and Bonding / Liquid Ecstasy and the Hive Mind / Political Power and Social Solidarity / Cultural Group Selection
4. Intoxication In The Modern World
Whiskey Rooms, Saloons, and the Ballmer Peak / Truth Is the Color Blue: Modern Shamans and Microdosing / Why Skype Didn't Eliminate Business Travel /Office Parties: Pros and Not Just Cons / Long Live the Local / Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beer Holder: Sex, Friendship, and Intimacy / Collective Effervescence: Tequila Shots and Burning Man / Ecstasy: Vacation from the Self / It's Only Rock-n-Roll: Defending the Hedonistic Body / It Is Time to Be Drunk
5. The Dark Side Of Dionysus
The Puzzle of Alcoholism / The Problem with Liquor: An Evolutionary Mismatch / Isolation: The Danger of Drinking Alone / Distillation and Isolation: The Twin Banes of Modernity / Drunk Driving, Bar Fights, and Venereal Disease / Beer Goggles and Violence Against Women / Outsiders and Teetotalers Not Welcome: Reinforcing the Old Boys' Clubs / Solace or Wedge? Reinforcing Bad Relationships / Drunk on Heaven: Getting Beyond Alcohol? / Taming Dionysus / Living with Dionysus.