the Moss case, updated

[fpb]

Who remembers my posts about the significance for society at large of the events that surrounded Kate Moss' exposure as a cocaine user? I said, at the time, that this might turn out to be a defining case in our social history; not because it mattered in itself - whatever happens to a rich, moderately pretty, bored, and very silly 30-year-old, is of no consequence to anyone but herself - but because it would indicate where we, as a society, are, with respect to drugs.

Well, I would say that the results are by now tolerably clear. Kate Moss disappeared briefly into a detox clinic; having re-emerged, and smelled the wind, she has thrown herself back into her old lifestyle, not, as before, quietly and behind closed doors, but with the most emphatic and deliberate publicity, as if throwing it in the faces of the public and the media. (http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/2006/01/12/kate_moss_and_lindsay_lohan_ho_1.html#comment) After all, while she was briefly away, the world's leading fashion magazine, VOGUE, placed her on its December front cover, with the complimentary blurb "Kate Moss, scandalous beauty". Ms. Moss clearly feels that she has the support of her industry and her social milieu.

I have no admiration or sympathy for anyone involved in this, but I have long been of the opinion that drugs ought to be legalized. I hope that this indecorous circus, and the cowardly behaviour of the London police, are indications that the demonization of drugs is finally running out of steam, and that we can look forward to a more sensible state of the law in our lifetimes.

Comments

drug legalisation

[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty hypocritical of the fashion and entertainment industry, at any rate. Most of the designers spend a good five hours a day snorting coke off some slapper's tits.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, what I am saying is that they are close to not being even hypocritical about it any more. The fashion industry's main magazine, VOGUE, has not only implicitly defended but virtually canonized Ms.Moss. It looks to me as if we are close to the end of hypocrisy on this matter.