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Yeah I have the same impression. The author wouldn't have even written the article if he had tried psychedelics, which are often reported as the most significan
by mountainriver 5y ago
Yeah I have the same impression. The author wouldn't have even written the article if he had tried psychedelics, which are often reported as the most significant experience in peoples lives.
This is just reductionist thinking, which can be good to temper things and reduce harm, but the authors bias is pretty readable
- nonbirithm 5y agoI have to wonder how many of our strongly held beliefs can be rendered irrelevant to our own minds by something as mundane as a few micrograms of a chemical. I also have to wonder how many of those beliefs can only be corrected by something as drastic as a foreign substance acting on it against our will. In some other universe, the world might become a very different place if the people in power chose to take LSD with an open mind. If so, there would be no "meaning" we could attribute to that radical change except that it was the result of a chemical formula. It feels like there is something profound about that related to the meaningfulness of all things, but since I haven't taken psychedelics, I guess I am still blind to what it is.
- int_19h 5y agoIt does stimulate empathy among other things, which is something that's very lacking in politics (meaning genuine empathy, not the virtue signalling performance variety).