Snake PSA Dissection: 🐍 An Addendum to the Archives of Snake Oil Salvation (1992) — Part 2

26 Jun, 2025

📎 Addendum to: The Evil Snake Drug Dealer PSA (1992) - Snake, Fear, and the Drug Game That Was Never Meant to Be Won

Let’s set the record straight: this isn’t just about a talking snake trying to sling crack to a kid watching DuckTales. This is about the truth hiding behind the hiss.

We already broke down the visuals. The morphing. The hiss. The fear-mongering. The JonTron memeification. The fact that this PSA scarred an entire generation before Power Rangers could even come back from commercial. But now, let’s go deeper.

🧠 Why Drugs Exist (And Why the Snake Isn’t the Only Villain)

Drugs aren’t just "bad things sold by bad people." They are the byproduct of a society so unbearable, people will ingest poison just to feel human again.

Let’s get real:

• Why do people take drugs? To escape.
• What are they escaping from? Pain. Trauma. Oppression. Cycles they can’t break. Systems they can’t fight.

You think a snake slinging street crack is the real enemy? Nah. That’s just the middleman. The street pharmacist. The broker of dreams people were never allowed to have.

You want to talk hypocrisy?

• Beer is legal. Causes liver damage.
• Cigarettes are legal. Cause cancer.
• Weed? Only recently allowed in certain zones, mostly so corporations could get a cut.

But step into heroin? Meth? Crack? Suddenly we don’t ask why—we just punish. We don’t rehabilitate—we incarcerate.

🐍 Snake Wasn’t Just a Villain—He Was a Warning Label With Teeth

The Snake PSA was designed to make kids afraid. And it worked. But let’s not confuse terror with truth.

He said:

"You’ll lie, you’ll cheat, you’ll steal from your mom."

And he’s not wrong. But we never ask: Why would someone sink that low in the first place?

The PSA never shows the kid’s home. Never shows his neighborhood. Never shows the poverty. Never shows the reasons.

Instead, it dramatizes the end of the story—so you forget how the story even began.

🎭 Society’s Favorite Game: Demonize the Symptom, Ignore the Source

You demonize the black dealer. You mock the addict. You meme the PSA.

But you never fund the schools. Never clean up the neighborhoods. Never hire the fatherless. Never mentor the mother-tired.

You just slap a fanged metaphor on the screen and call it a day.

This isn’t fear for education. It’s fear as distraction. Because if you’re busy being scared of Snake… You’ll forget to look at the real monster: a broken system with no plan for the poor but punishment.

📉 The Business Side: Paper First, Then Poison

Let’s flip the lens. Snake wasn’t just a horror trope. He was a businessman.

"You don’t smoke your own supply."

He knew the rules. He knew he wasn’t the addict. He was the supplier—the system’s dark mirror. Because when the government didn’t offer dreams? Snake did.

It’s capitalism, just without permission.

🩸 Truth Hurts More Than Any Drug

No drug hits harder than:

• Watching your mother break down over an unpaid bill.
• Seeing your brother get locked up for surviving.
• Walking through schools with no books but a cop at every door.

Drugs don’t make villains. Neglect does. Pain does. Desperation does.

So yeah, scare us with snake eyes and shadows. But we see through it now.

And the sad part? Even with all the fear you pumped into our generation, You still didn’t fix shit.

🔒 Final Note: A Snake With No Cure

Villains wiki said:

“Snake has no known weaknesses. Possibly vulnerable to holy symbols or sunlight.”

But here’s the twist: He’s not the one who needs to burn.

The system that made him? The streets that birthed him? The policies that ignored him? Those are what need sunlight.

Because Snake isn’t fiction. He’s a symptom. A consequence.

And until you fix the pain? The venom stays in the bloodstream.