I’m a man who has been sober for two and a half years and I actually related to A LOT of this, granted I can’t relate to all of it, but much of it I do. We are a country in serious crises and booze is the salve. It’s like Soma from “Brave New World.” Once you become sober the reality of reality hits you like a ton of bricks and you have to face it head on. I spent much of my first year enraged by what I saw around me, and the next year and a half carving out a place for myself outside of society because a society that thinks microbrews and organic wines are the answer to environmental degradation, wealth, gender and racial inequalities is a society I am not much interested in any longer. When I looked at the world that first year my default position basically became a desire for anarchy, mainly because of all the power inequities that fuel our society (I should add I am a criminal defense attorney, so I experience these inequities up close and personal, or at least as up close and personal as a white male can, and alcohol was what I used to drown out those inequities). In the end all you can do is find that space for yourself and create your own sober reality detached from a world that continues on drown itself in it’s own BS and booze.