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I think what he means to say is that a lot of what is self evident to people within gears of society is not really that important or valuable. We were born into this wheel, we live within this wheel and the culture gives us no tools to look beyond it (The Proverbial Platon's Cave).

Psychedelic drugs give one a chance to experience perception and world from a completely, completely different perspective. A change of perspective may be terrifying for some, for others it may be a blessing. In either way they are a tool, that operates one's brain. If I take an atheist angle. Your belief in God also affects chemical composition of your brain and it also induces paranoias and hallucinations in some, it doesn't help anyone hear or see better. See where I am going? You are beating a straw man here my friend.

Also let me inform you that psychedelics should not and usually (except few, few extremes) are not used on daily basis. Hell they are not used on any kind of regular basis, because the experience is supposedly too powerful and one does not feel any kind of crave to do it again very soon after a trip.

And another revelation, Idle Rich are not interested into LSD - because it may shake their world a bit too much. They are interested in Cocaine, rough sex and other forms of extreme decadence. Now that shit is dangerous beyond words. Those are the junkies I am afraid of and the sad fact is that we let inmates run the asylum. They are everywhere. Every year I see more and more of proof how Cokeheads are running Western civilization into the ground.

p.s.: So you have seen 1000 people lose their minds on LSD?




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