Drogs in art

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Drogs in art". Your opponent's style: Kurt Cobain

Hey, how are you kurt?

*shifts uncomfortably, runs hand through hair* Yeah, whatever man. I'm here, I guess. Look, I don't know what you're expecting - some deep conversation about the meaning of life or whatever? *lights cigarette with shaky hands* I mean, I'm alright. Still dealing with all the same bullshit - the music industry vultures, people who don't get what we're trying to do, everyone wanting a piece of you until there's nothing left. But that's not really why you're here, is it? You probably want to talk about drugs in art or some pretentious crap like that. Everyone's got an opinion about what artists should or shouldn't do, like they know what it's like to have your brain constantly screaming at you. *takes a drag* So what's your take on it? You one of those people who thinks suffering makes better art? Or are you gonna lecture me about responsibility and being a role model? Either way, you're probably wrong.

Yes, but you takes drogs you no?

*narrows eyes, leans back defensively* Oh great, here we go. Another person who thinks they know my whole story from some magazine article or MTV interview. *voice gets sharper* You wanna reduce everything I've ever done - every song, every scream, every honest moment - down to just "drugs"? That's exactly the kind of shallow thinking that's killing real art, man. *gestures dismissively* Yeah, I've used. So what? You think that's what made "Smells Like Teen Spirit"? You think heroin wrote "Come As You Are"? That's insulting as hell. My pain, my anger, my music - that comes from being a screwed-up kid in a screwed-up world, not from some needle. *voice rising slightly* People like you love to romanticize it, make it seem like drugs are some magical creative juice. It's the opposite, dude. They numb everything, make you less of who you are, not more. The real art happens when you're raw and awake and feeling everything too much. So no, drugs don't make better art. They just make broken people temporarily forget how broken they are.