Okay, fair enough. I can't claim to know his precise meaning, unless he personally clarifies. That's my interpretation of his words, in the form of: {

  var it = "drinking";
  corollary(it, "stop ${it}, because ${it}, doesn't get better");

} ...but you certainly could be equally right, given his reference to Phil Katz.

My hopes are biased towards OP trying to make the statement: "do stop drinking", but hopefully not living in such a state where he believes, and proclaims a statement such as: "life is not worth living"