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Oh I think people are unhappy because of an abusive political system designed to funnel all wealth to the top while everyone else works themselves to death. Col
by TaylorAlexander 3y ago
Oh I think people are unhappy because of an abusive political system designed to funnel all wealth to the top while everyone else works themselves to death. Collective action is absolutely the real solution, but psychedelics can help people locked in the mindset that things can’t change to consider a better world.
There are simple things, like the fact that we are isolated. This according to Noam Chomsky is an intentional and desirable outcome of a corporate mass media system that wants to keep us separated. And a nice psychedelic trip with friends is a great way to remember not just that you like being with your friends, but that the world that keeps you apart is genuinely inhumane, and we should start to look deeper at how to solve these issues.
Basically I think psychedelics can be a tool that leads to the collective action you have rightly pointed out is the ultimate solution.
- ecshafer 3y agoThe reverse seems much much more likely. The abusive political system pushes drug legalization as an opiate of the masses so they are more content to deal with the abusive political system. A weekend of legal drug use to make the pain go away and disrupt solidarity.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoOpiates are quite a different animal. A weekend of psychedelics with your friends is not going to help you ignore anything.
- chiefalchemist 3y agore: opiate of the masses https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+opiate+of+the+masses https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+opiate+of+the+masse... In short, it's not to be read literally.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoI'm aware, and in context with religion is an apt metaphor. But in context with psychedelics it's not. They're not a numbing agents, they're catalysts for change, that's why they're applicable to therapy in ways that opiates are not.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoYes and no. At some low-level the brain doesn't differential between physical pain and mental / emotional pain. It's pain, and it needs to be reckoned with. Maybe psychedelics aren't painkillers in the opioid sense. However, they do provide pain relief, and yes perhaps an opportunity for healing. The difference really isn't all that much.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoI agree with the other commenter that this is not how psychedelics work. They do not "make the pain go away" like depressants. If they have any effect on solidarity it would be to strengthen it, not disrupt it. This is interestingly a great example of the point being made in TFA. That we need a new category for psychedelics because they are not anything like opiates etc.