ah, we're here once again
these fucking ghouls
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2024
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I still think about that post from time to time.
it sticks, doesn't it
it definitely deserves a longer form article sometime! it’d be very informative to look into how proto-TESCREAL (cyberlibertarian) influences shaped attitudes on psychedelics (including my own) and find the point where the idea of taking psychedelics went from “they’ll make you a better (more egalitarian/antifascist) person” to “they’ll make you a more efficient capitalist monster”.
there are important overarching questions too — how long have fascist groups used psychedelics as an effective tool for indoctrination and control? why do some indoctrination attempts involving psychedelics succeed and others have the opposite of the intended effect? I’ve got the gut feeling that the answers to those questions tie in with the change in ideals I mentioned.
find the point where the idea of taking psychedelics went from “they’ll make you a better (more egalitarian/antifascist) person” to “they’ll make you a more efficient capitalist monster”.
i think it happened somewhere around the time when microdosing got popular as an idea since that made psychedelics more palatable for normies. 2015ish i think?
I don't really miss the "psychedelics make you a better person" narrative. Mostly it just seems like some people perceive themselves as more egalitarian or antifascist after taking psychedelics.
by way of a tangent, the android fucking mess there resolved in me nearly putting my computer through a window
over the years I've found many reasons to dislike google, but good god that little excursion gave me a whole fresh set
Don't do drugs, they'll turn you into Sam Altman and everyone will hate you
Especially artists.
I imagine Sam lecturing wasted teenage me at a party about the logical efficiencies of getting high on psychedelics vs beer and cigarettes. I’m trying to focus on his face while he just talks and talks and I’m teetering and sweating and he just keeps talking
These people even take drugs wrong, that's an impressive human experience to fuck up
