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Careful selling this shit, Capitalists!

Any drug that heals trauma makes people content and secure.

They won't be addicted to alcohol, tobacco, television, mindless games, or any of the other drugs for sale.

They'll settle for what they have, stop chasing rainbows of wealth and fame.

Now they won't work in your factories 24/7, running an economy that nobody really needs.

They'll stop listening to all the fear-mongering propaganda.

They'll start talking to each other, face to face, bypassing all the apparatus of interpersonal surveillance.

They'll start helping each other, cutting dependency on your mediation.

You can't sell them crap they don't need for money they don't have.

And if they stop living in debt and fear, now you can't control them.

There's a reason we have a "War on drugs".

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I dunno man, drugs are fun and enlightening and all but they aren't /that/ magical. the war on drugs has only been going on for some decades, societies have been fucked up for millenia. the everyday world would be a lot more colorful, but its gonna take a lot more to reach this nirvana you paint than widespread mdma or other psychedelic use.

> drugs ... aren't /that/ magical.

You're right. I'm just kinda mixing up some Bill Hicks and some Erik Fromm in a mash. Truth is, we learned it in the 60s, that chemical enlightenment road just loops back to Dodge.

But I'm kicking up stones to see where they land, because of the cloying contradiction that remains at the heart of our lives. People want to feel good. They want good mental health. Free from anxiety and self-loathing. I think it was Frank Zappa who said good mental health is the most urgent need of our times, and that everything else would fall into place (politics, economy) if we can just stop being collectively mad. And Zappa hated drugs IIRC.

Like Fromm, I think he's right though. It starts at the bottom, not with individual happiness, but simply with individual wellness. Wellness being freedom from the enormous circus of corporate and technological misery we're all immersed in, which feeds on trauma and insecurity.

The idea, that other people's wellness could be a threat, is clearly out there. I mean, someone just equated all the horrors and human failings of modernity with a specific religious faith in a cheap potshot at my philosophy. It doesn't get much more reactionary (and bigoted) than that.

There's more than a few psychoanalysts who have said that valuing wellness of mind in society that is fuelled by madness is quite a radical position.

+1 for living a life that's not driven by fear

Or at least a pat on the back to those who strive to do this and still keep falling short. Keep going don't give up.

> They won't be addicted to alcohol, tobacco, television, mindless games, or any of the other drugs for sale.

Do you think you’re underestimating capitalism a little bit here? You can’t imagine a world where pharmaceutical companies over-prescribe MDMA for financial gain?

The alternative is mushrooms, and that REALLY makes people content and turns people away from capitalism. So they will take what they can.

Never had a really good trip on mushrooms, I really envy all those that can enjoy them. I always end up digging up the worst traumas and feeling no reason to live.

I'd seek therapy to resolve that, maybe psychedelic integration therapy if the re-traumatization is an issue you've faced after having these experiences. I've been sending people to a clinic which has this as a focus - they definitely don't administer psychedelics but they do a pretty good at helping people who have gone through such difficult experiences. You can find practitioners who can help in your area through this site [1]

[1] https://psychedelic.support/

MDMA has a dark side : the next morning can be really depressing for your sérotonine vacuumed brain.

With mushroom I never had that.

I stopped taking MD years ago because of how I felt afterward.

> the next morning can be really depressing for your sérotonine vacuumed brain

Normal for any psycho-stimulant I'd say. Even alcohol. Some things are much worse for some people though, so I'd say as with all of these powerful things like mushrooms and MDMA; very occasionally for planned medicinal rather than recreational use. And with the right people, in the the right context, safe space, and some free days after to chill, reflect and detox.

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