ADDICTED TO RUSH- THE RUSH LIMBAUGH  PHENOMENON



You’re driving to work. You want to get updated; on traffic conditions. You push the third button form the left, you’ve already  pre tuned it to the daily traffic channel. 

But that’s not what you hear, can’t spend to long with eyes not on the road, may run into some- thing.  You hear a voice...kind of ruff and gravely. What’s he talking about?  Sure sounds excited about something.

The traffic loosens up and you begin to get the gist of this conversation.  “ I tell you if we don’t stand up to these weak and impotent right wing want to be’s; politicians who claim to be Conservative and are really Liberals in disguise, we’re all going down the tubes.

Your mind starts to race. You’re putting 2&2 together, the voice the topic of conversation, this must be, the rush Limbaugh radio show, heard so much about him but How did he get on my car radio. 

But guess what, he’s saying some of the same things you say an feel.  To you its like he read your thoughts and now he’s sharing them with the world.  So its not Rush talking its you.

With out knowing, it your excitement level rises. The adrenalin corses through your veins and now your exhilarated. He hits a verbal stride and just like all good speakers; your emotions are being lifted and ebb along with his conversational flow.

You are experiencing the same “rush”(no pun intended) that people who are addicted to drugs experience when they get high, the same euphoria that we all feel when we, here are favorite music, or a certain person, give a speech, the we identify with; like the “I have a dream speech” by Martin Luther King Jr..

So is Rush Limbaugh a spreader of hate and a awful person who’s contaminating the air waves?

That’s for the individual to decide. If you agree with what he says and your body’s on-board Pharmacy, kicks in and starts to dispense: Adrenalin, Endorphin’s, & Dopamine, to your system, then its because you identify so strongly, with his speech, that its like you are talking yourself.

Not just talking, but talking with an audience of listener that ranges into the thousands.  Last count 27,000, and climbing.  More than likely when the novelty wears off the numbers will decrease and settle somewhere around 19 or 20,000. This will still be an increase form the 12-14,000...that Rush use to have.

So the term: FIX, when referring to the way some people follow there favorite on air personalities, has significant meaning, the bodies own natural ability to give us a good jolt, of chemical, mood elevation...is real.
And when you find yourself waiting and wanting to here the object of you daily excitement; its because you have a form of addiction.  If you find yourself getting frustrated and agitated when you can’t get to the source that sends you r body into on-board, drug overdrive, then you’ve got it bad.

The only way to kick this habit, be it over Rush or any other celebrities, is to start thinking things through, and find some distraction, to fill in the time you use to spend; getting high.