■ This article is an anthropological case study of a bacchanalian club called Gold n' Metal. The aim is to arrive at a set of analytical concepts that may be used to describe the state of intoxication as it is lived out among the members of Gold n' Metal and among Ringsted youth at large.
A leitmotif in the article is the phenomenological advice that it is things in themselves that will teach us what they are. The focus is therefore on the state of intoxication per se and not on the background or underlying causes of alcohol and drug use.
Degradation, ethics of the instant, mortification, reflexive immoralism, and communitas – these are the concepts that I propose may be used as analytical torches to illuminate some of the essential characteristics of the state of intoxication as it is lived out among the members of Gold n' Metal.
The members of Gold n' Metal as well as most other young people from Ringsted do not use intoxicants as a means of escape. The young use intoxicants in order to intensify their relationship with self and other, as a shortcut to acute and spectacular experiences, and as a way to investigate and experiment with reality. It is therefore advocated that we visualize intoxication primarily as a movement towards and not only as a movement away from.
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