The Disease of Perception and the Hamster Wheel That Keeps Turning – Ken D.
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Brooklyn, a neighborhood where the "Dons" kept the peace and the drug dealers got their hands slammed in car doors. Ken D. is unscarred by education, a man who once thought Moby Dick was a venereal disease and spent his drinking years housekeeping in a dream. He describes the newcomer's condition as a tragedy of motion: the hamster is dead, but the wheel is still turning.
For Ken, sobriety is the ritual of jettisoning the make-believe persona to reveal the "hole in the donut"—the permanent space where the Higher Power resides. He rejects the "committee in the head," calling repetitive thinking a second disease that keeps a man from living in the now. From the back of a nine-passenger station wagon, he learned to look at the wreckage of his past. Now a "disciplined wild man," he navigates a world of impermanence—where people die, change, or leave—with a gritty laugh and a refusal to be a noun.
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