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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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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few are prepared to decide for themselves what the contents of their consciousness might mean, or what it ought to be. a taste of liberation, though it only lasts for a single afternoon, is more than many are capable of dealing with.
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