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The cynic in me fears that most psychs will never be legalized. Can you imagine the threat posed to the elite if you had a large portion of the public regularly

The cynic in me fears that most psychs will never be legalized. Can you imagine the threat posed to the elite if you had a large portion of the public regularly engaging in unrestrained free-associative thought?

usrusr 8y ago
I can't. I totally fail at imagining any form of threat the elite might face from a "public regularly engaging in unrestrained free-associative thought". Their positions would be safer than ever.
- samcday 8y ago
  Really? Well let me elaborate then. Instead of the majority of people mindlessly consuming media and products without questioning the impact it's having on their minds, their future, the environment, other cultures, etc, they might pause to ponder these things. Rather than accepting society as an immutable construct that they couldn't possibly influence in a positive way, people might choose to participate in challenging the status quo. In lieu of othering demographics that they don't understand, people might realize that despite some minor cosmetic differences, we're all humans that have a pretty vivid subjective experience of pain. The elite benefit from a complacent majority. I would even go so far as to say they rely on a complacent majority to maintain their position. You don't have to venture very far to read stories about people who experience tectonic shifts in their patterns of thought after taking psychs. The current fully legalized and regulated substances just don't have that kind of effect. Alcohol just lowers your inhibitions and arguably makes you stupider.
  - globe1337 8y ago
    After I had a breakthrough LSD experience it was immediately obvious to me why it was banned. If you let everybody do it there would be a revolution.
  - usrusr 8y ago
    > people might choose to participate in challenging the status quo. Never met a drug user who did that. Met scores of drug users who thought that they did.

usrusr 8y ago

I can't. I totally fail at imagining any form of threat the elite might face from a "public regularly engaging in unrestrained free-associative thought". Their positions would be safer than ever.

samcday 8y ago
Really? Well let me elaborate then. Instead of the majority of people mindlessly consuming media and products without questioning the impact it's having on their minds, their future, the environment, other cultures, etc, they might pause to ponder these things. Rather than accepting society as an immutable construct that they couldn't possibly influence in a positive way, people might choose to participate in challenging the status quo. In lieu of othering demographics that they don't understand, people might realize that despite some minor cosmetic differences, we're all humans that have a pretty vivid subjective experience of pain. The elite benefit from a complacent majority. I would even go so far as to say they rely on a complacent majority to maintain their position. You don't have to venture very far to read stories about people who experience tectonic shifts in their patterns of thought after taking psychs. The current fully legalized and regulated substances just don't have that kind of effect. Alcohol just lowers your inhibitions and arguably makes you stupider.
- globe1337 8y ago
  After I had a breakthrough LSD experience it was immediately obvious to me why it was banned. If you let everybody do it there would be a revolution.
- usrusr 8y ago
  > people might choose to participate in challenging the status quo. Never met a drug user who did that. Met scores of drug users who thought that they did.