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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Replying to @PereGrimmer
we have not yet constructed an appropriate cultural container for psychedelics. this is a project that the Boomers were incapable of accomplishing, for many reasons (the malignant Narcissism chief among them). it falls to us instead.
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
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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Replying to @delysis @PereGrimmer
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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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
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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Replying to @delysis @PereGrimmer
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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Whether it is liberation or reification of the cage depends strongly on dosage, set and setting. For instance: microdoses aren’t scary, but they can be used to turn people into better consumers.
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