In his autobiographical novel „John Barleycorn“ published
in 1913, Jack London explained how dangerous and bad alcohol is. This is the
novel that speaks about his literary alter ego's life, pointing out that his
life path was always connected with the alcohol. He claims that he didn't even
like alcohol, at the beginning, as a young man, and that he was drinking it so
he would be accepted by his friends. He was physically strong, so he could drink
a lot, and he became popular because of that, but as the years passed by, he got
used to drinking so much, that he couldn't stop. His opinion is that the
alcohol was one of the main causes of depression in his later life and one of
the main helpers of so called „white logic“: dreadful and nihilistic intellectual pessimism...
