People've been saying this since the 1960s. But instead of an Aquarian Age, we've suffered the most self-absorbed, grasping generation ever born, the boomers, and they've taken a wrecking ball to near all American institutions (a few for the better). Predict more of the same.https://twitter.com/iamjustincscott/status/1057070077722484736 …
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Psychedelics lend themselves to creating and destroying cultural containers. I have difficulty imagining a cultural container psychedelics couldn’t melt. (save cultural containers that proscribe their use —I wonder if this is how placebo sacraments came to dominate).
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Not endorsing this for the U.S. but the Native American Curch, Uiao de Vegetal, and traditional Andean shamanism seem like stable containers. I can imagine containers that are more compatible with U.S. culture being able to hold it for us.
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I agree, I've propounded similar. Will take time for that type of tradition to emerge and stabilize. Something to look forward to!
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If metastatic containers count, we have many that work for a lot of people: burns, tours, raves, therapy methodologies, cults, psych societies, academic research, medical trials, flow dojos, yoga aya circles, etc. None seem remotely resistant to malignant narcissism.
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there's boomers in all of them
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Boomer narcissism is bad, but their run is ending. I fear the childcare-by-AI-psuedoslave narcissism that will be with us for the rest of our lives. Psychedelic imprinting on AI psuedoslaves is a similar liability for adults. Psychs induce child-like gullibility. Ads lie.
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psychedelics manifest what is already present in the mind of the user. that so many become child-like in their suggestibility is a statement about the user's existing proclivities. you're probably right that it's extremely common in Western culture though.
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we've created a society where people are ready, willing, and able to ingest mass produced products, ideas, and ethoi. we flood their sensory inputs with these suggestions "buy this. do this. believe this." and grant them the illusion of choice by having a "market" of suggestions.
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