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I've personally seen someone go from racist, xenophobic and hateful to not in the space of a single trip.
by mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
I've personally seen someone go from racist, xenophobic and hateful to not in the space of a single trip.
- nerbert 3y agoWow, I'd love to witness something like that one day. My circle doesn't include a lot of these people, and maybe that in itself is part of the more general problem.
- basil-rash 3y agoAnd if they wanted to talk about it, I’d listen. Where I protest is when people make grandiose claims like “this solved so many problems for me, it even solved problems that I didn’t have!”, which only serve to perpetuate the modern hippie-dippie stereotype.
- fullshark 3y agoHow would you even see that? Can you describe in more detail?
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoWe were both tripping. Fairly recent acquaintances, I had no idea about his views, until it came up during conversation. We ended up talking about it for several hours. I stayed non-judgemental and just kept probing with questions about why he feels this way. Eventually he realised he was really just angry about the failures in his own life and the local community he was from. He'd picked up a bad media diet(neocon youtube...) and found some kind of relief I suppose in directing his anger at others. There was a lot of crying. He even thanked me the next day. I think that's about as detailed as I can get without revealing private information. It was a remarkable experience and fundamentally changed the way I think about the human mind, extreme political views, political dialogue, and most of all how therapy should work.
- realanswe91 3y agoTransorbital lobotomy would achieve that result too.