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That’s the title of a song by Kiefer Sutherland which seems to reflect his way of life. Drinking has pretty much been the crutch he’s leaned on his whole life. This isn’t about him; he’s just one of a vast army of drunks. He’s been successful in everything it would appear except in relationships.

Those words “not enough whiskey” are very true. There’s just never enough to solve your problems, to make people listen, to cover up your unwillingness to change. The song describes the typical scenario. Girl leaves boy, he knows she’s not coming back because she’s already found someone new. It’s an old story that repeats throughout the ages. It’s hard for the drunk to understand why people who have a reason to live don’t want them around.

It’s an addiction of course. Science insists that everything we do has a “chemical” reason. I’m not going to argue with that. Sin after all is an inherited curse. But in the end we are responsible for our succumbing to its power. Which ever sin we get involved in, we begin to like it. Sin itself is addicting. We do what we do because we’re in bondage to our flesh. We like being captains of our own destiny.

I’m sure we’ve all known those whose whole life along with those they “love” have been ruined by drinking. There was that first girl that left because of their drinking. That hurt, so they drank too much. For a few hours, nothing matters. Nothing matters to a drunk. Oh they may say it does; sincerity may be in their vocabulary but they have no concept of what it is. Everything they do has to have a drink added to it. Eventually it’s just drink and nothing else is necessary. We witness it over and over again. Eventually the things they did fall away and are lost forever and drinking stands alone as the god of your life.

Women too suffer from alcohol addiction but I do believe most of the time they don’t have the luxury of time that they can devote to it. Women bear children, involved in the raising of kids and making sure a house is a home. Our present culture seems to be on a “woke” binge what with women deciding that being self indulgent like men is a deserved and better way to live. So alcoholism and drug addiction have become mainstream in our culture.

So those words are ever true, there’s not enough whiskey, there’s not enough of anything to make it all, all right as the song says. There never is. The bottle always ends up empty just like life winds up empty.