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U2 Singer Addicted to Jenkem

Bono Struggles With Feces-Derived Drug

January 13, 2008
ANUS News

BERLIN — Bono recently had to cancel his promotion of a charity event due to "health issues." His personal doctor, von Lasen, said: "While I must insist that I do not disgress further into his condition, herr Bono is suffering from accute liver malfunction." His psychological evaluator, Nina Bergstein, who was also present, added that Bono had acquired cognitive dissonance, and would require extensive reprogrammming.

All this is due to a new high-end yet low-tech drug called Jenkem. Jenkem was made famous by African street children, and it (literally) boils down to a mixture of raw sewage — left to ferment in the Sun. The resulting gas is inhaled, giving a high. Per Preston, a scientist at the University of Cambridge, has this to say about Jenkem:

Jenkem is not like an ordinary high, say sniffing glue or smoking marihuana. It distorts your senses and makes you see stuff that isn't real, like your deceased mom, or colors that doesn't exist."

However, not everything about Jenkem is bad news. Jenkem is one of Africa's largest industries, currently engaging a quarter of Zimbabwe population. We asked Alex Head, an economist specialized in African industries, about his opinion:

The Jenkem industry is nothing short of a miracle. It creates jobs. It's also a form of sustainable development, as the increasing population and their sewage output will allow industry to expand further. Overall, the good sides of Jenkem outweigh the bad ones.

Nevertheless, Bono is a Jenkem addict. Over time, addicts of any drug acquire tolerance, meaning that the potency of the drug will decrease over time. Jenkem addiction even has a more sinister side to it. Bono recently showed up at a conference, apparently having gained some pounds. Jenkem stimulates appetite, so as to create more raw material for Jenkem production. Chronic Jenkem abuse often goes hand-in-hand with obesity, and other conditions linked to the latter, such as diabetes and liver problems. This is how Bono got a wrecked liver.

Nevertheless, Bono's addiction is feeding starving African children. Though he might have to put this habit off, others will likely follow in his footsteps — showing the world that only true solidarity can help Africa off its knees.

About Jenkem

"Jenkem" is a noxious mixture made from fermented sewage. It is cheap, potent and very popular among the thousands of street-children in Africa. Addicted children claim they're able to see their dead mothers and forget about the problems in life. Recent reports claim Jenkem has now spread to the West.

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The American Nihilist Underground Society advocates nihilism, or a removal of interpretive layers from our perception of physical reality, as a means of transcending illusion. Nihilism denies value and purpose, which are byproducts of the human desire to judge reality and make a consensual "social reality" that by seizing on a single material factor misses the intelligible, or design-based, knowledge we need to adapt to reality. ANUS has been promoting nihilism since 1987.

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Nihilism is the belief that nothing we perceive has Absolute value; reality exists, but beyond its inherent meaning to us as the physical container of our existence, it has no significance outside of what we perceive. "The world is my representation," indeed. When we strip away all of the values projected onto physical reality and its outcomes, we are left only with personal ideal and natural ideal, and bringing the former into adaptation with the latter is the lifetime task to which nihilism is a gateway.

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