Sadly, my network connection got moody and I couldn't view the last part to the end but I've seen enough. A good enough show. I was fearing it would be a bit biased at first but then it kicked off and I am happy to say they presented most of the important facts, ups and downs and sides in the issue.
Just as I always say- the hippies had no idea, 90% of them was clueless- no more than half-wit children who felt like doing sth new and 'awesome' and LSD offered them such new playgrounds with its psychedelic swings and carousels that sent them swirling above the air, up and down, Heaven and Hell alternatively and they had no idea how to stop the ride or direct its course. Theirs was a rollercoaster ride ended in a disaster and many a victim, physical or otherwise.
Huxley said the acid is by no means a drug to be dispensed liberally among the masses, and I fully support the man on this. I haven't yet read the 'Doors of Perception', sadly, but I perused lots and lots of his novels and the vision of a Utopian society in the "Island", where LSD-like substance was dispensed by shaman-type wise sages upon the youths in rituals- well, it felt truly haevenly and potentially possible. The old peoples, Mayas and such, they had shamans. The modern western civilizations have psychologists and while not perfect, I believe these people should decide what to do with this strong, influential drug. Not mad fanatics on a wild-goose chase for God. Not the government.
I fully agree with the statement that banning the lysergic acid from the scientific theatre is an outrage. What is this world we have created? Democratic and liberal values are a downright scam if we can't do as we please with our bodies and even if banning individual, recreational use of LSD is somehow understandable- I don't see why the advancement of science should be hurdled by a bunch of underdeveloped, drug-abusing, peace-dosing addicts or, if you please, the culture- as they said in the movie. Indeed, this is very much like the trepidations of Gallileo and I am sick of it, sick to the bone. Democracy reeks- this is the exact and perfect example of this. Politicians have to appeal to the, largely, mindless masses. Newspapers can make Mother Teresa look like a villain, let allow a drug which, as logic dictates, is no more dangerous than a butter knife. It's the people that make it a weapon or potential threat to the consciousness of the masses. The media make LSD look like the cause of all suffering(why not, nothing like a good sensation). Politicians must bend under the popular culture, reason and science be damned. Ergo- democracy stinks.
concerning american democracy, what has been mostly forgotten, through inattention or more deliberately, is that it was fashioned by intellectuals who mistrusted government. the beauty of our kind of bureaucracy is that it is intentionally inefficient, and the governors and bureaucrats must expend much of their time and energy fighting each other and not being tyrannical toward the people. the downside at present is as you suggest: it all has less reality than a tv gameshow. what you have failed to offer is a better alternative, but i don't really mind....
hallucinogens are exogenous neurotransmitters. at best they expand consciousness and push back horizons. as you say, >90% of 'hippies' were just kids looking for a thrill. but >90% of everyone are not too deep in their thinker. i'm not really pro- or anti-hallucinogens. i do think, as you know, the most powerful power factions are powerful indeed and they successfully suppress consciousness among the masses in order to control people. it is not a conspiracy but an emergent property of societies. why trust governments, or any other accretions of raw power, to decide what you do with your synaptic chemistry before you die? but i already talked about all this in 'remember a sunset,' and elsewhere....
my advice is to play all 4 simultaneously.
ReplyDeleteSadly, my network connection got moody and I couldn't view the last part to the end but I've seen enough. A good enough show. I was fearing it would be a bit biased at first but then it kicked off and I am happy to say they presented most of the important facts, ups and downs and sides in the issue.
ReplyDeleteJust as I always say- the hippies had no idea, 90% of them was clueless- no more than half-wit children who felt like doing sth new and 'awesome' and LSD offered them such new playgrounds with its psychedelic swings and carousels that sent them swirling above the air, up and down, Heaven and Hell alternatively and they had no idea how to stop the ride or direct its course. Theirs was a rollercoaster ride ended in a disaster and many a victim, physical or otherwise.
Huxley said the acid is by no means a drug to be dispensed liberally among the masses, and I fully support the man on this. I haven't yet read the 'Doors of Perception', sadly, but I perused lots and lots of his novels and the vision of a Utopian society in the "Island", where LSD-like substance was dispensed by shaman-type wise sages upon the youths in rituals- well, it felt truly haevenly and potentially possible. The old peoples, Mayas and such, they had shamans. The modern western civilizations have psychologists and while not perfect, I believe these people should decide what to do with this strong, influential drug. Not mad fanatics on a wild-goose chase for God. Not the government.
I fully agree with the statement that banning the lysergic acid from the scientific theatre is an outrage. What is this world we have created? Democratic and liberal values are a downright scam if we can't do as we please with our bodies and even if banning individual, recreational use of LSD is somehow understandable- I don't see why the advancement of science should be hurdled by a bunch of underdeveloped, drug-abusing, peace-dosing addicts or, if you please, the culture- as they said in the movie. Indeed, this is very much like the trepidations of Gallileo and I am sick of it, sick to the bone. Democracy reeks- this is the exact and perfect example of this. Politicians have to appeal to the, largely, mindless masses. Newspapers can make Mother Teresa look like a villain, let allow a drug which, as logic dictates, is no more dangerous than a butter knife. It's the people that make it a weapon or potential threat to the consciousness of the masses. The media make LSD look like the cause of all suffering(why not, nothing like a good sensation). Politicians must bend under the popular culture, reason and science be damned. Ergo- democracy stinks.
concerning american democracy, what has been mostly forgotten, through inattention or more deliberately, is that it was fashioned by intellectuals who mistrusted government. the beauty of our kind of bureaucracy is that it is intentionally inefficient, and the governors and bureaucrats must expend much of their time and energy fighting each other and not being tyrannical toward the people. the downside at present is as you suggest: it all has less reality than a tv gameshow. what you have failed to offer is a better alternative, but i don't really mind....
ReplyDeletehallucinogens are exogenous neurotransmitters. at best they expand consciousness and push back horizons. as you say, >90% of 'hippies' were just kids looking for a thrill. but >90% of everyone are not too deep in their thinker. i'm not really pro- or anti-hallucinogens. i do think, as you know, the most powerful power factions are powerful indeed and they successfully suppress consciousness among the masses in order to control people. it is not a conspiracy but an emergent property of societies. why trust governments, or any other accretions of raw power, to decide what you do with your synaptic chemistry before you die? but i already talked about all this in 'remember a sunset,' and elsewhere....