I've only smoked a few times in my life, so I can't speak to its social effects. I do know that thanks to alcohol, I came very close to needing to make friends in prison. (Sober 7 years at this point)
If you need alcohol to get laid or make friends then I feel very sorry for you. Most people I know got laid in high school (sometimes actually inside the school), without any alcohol involved at all. We also made plenty of friends. YMMV, I guess. I suppose some people are only likable if other people are drunk? I generally avoid those kinds of people no matter how inebriated I am.
I'm happy that people you know got laid in high school but loneliness has become society destroying epidemic and your friends that are getting laid are not doing enough to save the fertility rates.
The strange tone in your writing reminds me of Dinesh from the Silicon Valley series :) I'm sure you are one of the cool ones with the good hairstyle who doesn't need alcohol unlike the lesser people haha.
Alcohol is not about being so drunk that you do degenerate stuff and fuck people you don't like. It's about easing the social anxieties and improving the mood together with a good company and some music.
Since you are assuming things about me, I'll assume that your social skills suck if you need to be intoxicated to be social or get laid. It seems like your parents failed you.
But you don't know me and no, I don't have "a good hairstyle", and no, I'm not "one of the cool ones". I'm just as average as anyone.
"fertility rates" and people getting laid are two very different things. People don't have sex only to produce offspring.
And the world could use a lot less people anyway, so I don't see it as a bad thing if fertility rates drop, no matter the cause, even if the drop is significant. The world will be fine with a billion or two less people, in fact it may just improve some situations.
Lots of people are able to get laid and make friends without alcohol. If there is a person who can't, I think it says more about them than about alcohol.
