The Progressive Disease That Leaves You Upside Down and Thinking You’re Straight Side Up – Mike D.
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Harlem, New York, in the 60s—a place where they told him never to go to Texas. Mike D. arrives in Austin not as a tourist, but as a survivor of the "concrete and pavement" and the tenements. He speaks as a "real dope thing," a junkie who shot heroin into every vein in his body and played Russian roulette with his life until he hit the wall of the "Mad Dog Club." This is the club for the control freaks and the manipulators, the ones who treat people like slots in a theater and refuse to form a true partnership.
He describes the "dark night of the soul" and the internal war against "Mr. on 12th Street," the part of him whose only job is to kill him. For Mike D., the only defense is a Higher Power with some "oomph" to it—not a rock that can be crushed by a bulldozer, but an all-powerful force. He warns the room that the disease is cunning and baffling, leaving you twisted while you argue that you're standing straight.
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