Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
People don't want other people to get high because if you get high you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.