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I don't find that insulting. It's wonderful for you. What I find insulting is saying that calling GEB trippy is an insult. It's genuinely trippy and there's n

• cfraenkel 4y ago
  You explicitly "wondered" if H was "experienced" with psychedelics, implying that you thought so since you found it "trippy". Go back and read your original comment. No one here is saying psychedelics are morally suspect, they're saying that your explicit suggestion that H was "experienced" is insulting. Because it is. And your trying to move the goalposts after the fact is just digging that hole deeper.
  • mxkopy 4y ago
    That's really quite funny. Tell me again how I should read 'my' original comment - after you've compared my username with the one who made it. The suggestion that Hofstadter has tripped isn't insulting because GEB is a trippy book. Even if it weren't it wouldn't be insulting, only confusing, unless you think that trippy is a bad quality. Examine that. GEB is whimsical, fun and mind-bending. If it were written any other way it wouldn't be trippy. There is nothing wrong with that.