Since it's been removed I pulled the post here:
"sorry for repost but the last title was too political so it got taken down
im currently 17 and pretty much all my life i have demanded economic prosperity and for politics to not waste their time on social issues that dont really matter.
but ever since i took my first tab, i have begun considering leftist ideology, such as free healthcare, reformation to education, taxing the rich, affordable housing, and putting a focus on environmental clense.
this current mindset i am being uncontrollably pushed towards is really scary, as i am becoming the type of person i wouldve bullied online a year ago
what do should i give up lsd so i can try and manage this political shift of mine or embrace the change"
What you are experiencing is empathy. It can be overwhelming especially in an individualist culture, but embrace it you’re all the better for it
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Write that down, everyone. First step in the reeducation camps will be LSD-based empathy therapy.
MDMA isn't as safe as most halucinogens are. Obviously if you get real MDMA that's not laced with speed and you're responsible with it then it can be safe, but it also messes with your serotonin or dopamine levels in a way that I don't think shrooms and LSD do.
We're going to poison their precious bodily fluids right after we take their toothbrushes.
American culture is designed to brainwash the empathy out of people, especially men. It can be a serious internal struggle to undo all that damage and re-learn basic human empathy. I've been there.
I've been there too, comrade. :fidel-salute: congratulations on deprogramming
I have some lefties at my work and we occasionally bring up arguing with chuds and libs in our lives. Our catchphrase at this point is "I don't know how to make you care about other people".
I got in an argument with a guy in an old friend group that basically devolved into him telling me I needed to stop caring about others because the vast majority of the population was detestable and could go jump in the ocean for all he cared.
I kind of feel the same, at this point. Of course, the people who I think should jump in the ocean are a completely different set of people that the chud would think that about...
And when they do break out of the brainwashing suddenly they're an "empath" because they've literally never felt empathy before and its assumed what they are feeling is some novel event. This is like every single male on psychedelics ever
When I went on psychadelics I ended up spending three hours articulating a coherent philosophy of life based on Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and first century Christianity. Then I spent some time flirting with the refrigerator. Shrooms are cool but definitely get a trip minder.
And then those empaths will mansplain thinking about other people, as if it's not an entirely normal thing for most people.
Empathy hurts in America. I think of the story about Siddartha Gutama, the Buddha, who was a prince. The first time he left his palace he sees a poor person, a sick person, and a dead person and he realizes that his fancy life of ease and pleasure has been a lie at the expense of others, and he has this sudden shock of empathy and renounces his former life to become a philosopher and try to understand the nature of life and the meaning of suffering.
In the US there are so many desperately poor people, homeless people, people suffering from mental illness, people suffering for no fault of their own. Trying to have empathy for everyone who suffers is painful and distressing because most of the time there's nothing you can really do for them. Sure, you can slip a homeless person a 20 or some cheeseburgers once in a while, but the big structural solutions that would really help people are always held beyond our grasp by the fucking oligarchs. And that hurts. it can be so easy to just turn your empathy off and ignore it all to protect your own psyche, and a lot of people do just that.
Commenting so I can find this later and show it to ... basically everyone I know.
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And this is exactly why I call bullshit on a lot of so-called "All-American Christians".
I'd argue that Christian values led me to the left. I see prejudice and bigotry as a form of arrogance and therefore de-generacy, I see the destruction of the environment as de-generacy as it is ruining a divine work of art for philistinic decadence, I also have a strong amount of admiration for the advances in science, literature, etc done by Christianity: (Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, the Bible shaped literature as we know it, etc.), and not even all "Americanized" Christianity is bad, as transcendentalist Chrisitianity is one of the best subsections and that was born right here in the states. Finally, French and Irish history has also influenced my leftism, even though both are global north.
It's not even a matter of "brainwashing" it's just strictly speaking not useful to "have empathy" (which here really just means having values, and ideally taking actions which are principally pro-social in nature), unless you're a very specific kind of - I don't know to describe it other than "high social value" - person.
If you have power within, and are able to have all of your material needs & creature-comforts met within the market, you've won so there's no fucking reason beyond the sanctity of your "Immortal Soul" to care about what the fuck happens to anyone below you; and there's plenty of TV preachers who will tell you that your prosperity is itself a sign of divine favor.
If you are an ugly autistic loser who lives with their parents at 30 (I'm talking about myself here for anyone who wants to get mad at me for saying that); then you also have no real reason to exercise empathy beyond that which is necessary to getting your ass kicked; because everyone already sees you as fundamentally inferior to themselves and so any attempted pro-social action you take will never actually be reciprocated upon, and just as well the expectation that it ever would be can only be taken as evidence of one's own toxic entitlement.
If you are an ugly autistic loser who lives with their parents at 30
same :sadness: feels very bad man
It’s not even a matter of “brainwashing” it’s just strictly speaking not useful to “have empathy” (which here really just means having values, and ideally taking actions which are principally pro-social in nature), unless you’re a very specific kind of - I don’t know to describe it other than “high social value” - person.
I'm not gonna argue with your experiences, but I'm fairly certain human beings are social creatures. Meaning we literally survive more easily in groups of people we get along with. The survival of one increases the survival of the whole group, even someone who can't do manual labor can still contribute to the group in some way shape or form. I don't like defaulting to "human nature" arguments, but we literally evolved to work together. And not as isolated subjects of an Alpha Chief or whatever, but as a community.
Empathy is our ability to do this. It's our ability to be a part of a group of other people and not immediately kill each other like we're betta fish or something.
And despite our society being run by and for those with the least empathy, the average human being would still push a magic "Help Others" button if they felt like it wouldn't hurt themselves. People will take care of themselves first, but they also do care about other people by default, until it's beaten out of them by a society run by the worst of us.
I guess what I'm really getting at here, is that I don't really believe that I'm ever actually going to get to be a part of any "group", any community, in which I can be a genuinely valued member.
I am never really going to be able to benefit from any of what you are talking about; precisely because there is no such thing as a "Magic Help-Others Button" that can be pressed at no cost to oneself. Anyone who would choose to associate with me would have to do so knowing that they would then need to go out of their way to accommodate my social & developmental deficits were they to do so; and so how could they ever really value me as much as someone for whom they did not have to do those things? Maybe if I were exceptionally talented in some other way, but I'm not; I can't really do anything other than menial labor.
The dragon of chaos brings you tea and cookies and wants to talk about your feelings.
My empathy is very strong because of my autism and I learned to numb it to mask because sobbing in the middle of history class got me made fun of. Unmasking has been quite the process. I thought I just lacked empathy entirely for a long time. It made me feel like a monster. I was never a chud, but it definitely played into a lot of reactionary brainworms.
I'm not autistic but I have had literal crying breakdowns learning about WWII and other horrible moments in history.
Yeah it’s definitely not the only reason you would feel it that strongly. I’m sorry you had a hard time processing that stuff
I don't regret it or anything. I think crying out in horror is the appropriate response to something like WWII. That degree of violence should be intensely upsetting and emotionally painful, you know?
toxic masculinity favors you being 'logical', having no emotions, and a 'hard worker' and cookie cutter
My "favourite" part of this toxic masculinity mindset is that choosing to be a logic bro with no emotion is in of itself an emotional choice in which you supress certain parts of yourself.
This ties in to the idea that the first act of violence that toxic masculinity asks of the individual is violence against yourself. Young boy children have empathy and share and enjoy playing with trucks and dolls, but that gets beaten out of them by society, and to mature in to toxic masculinity they have to kill the parts of themselves that are "Soft" or else become an outsider. You have to destroy your self before you have the capacity to go on and destroy others.
Just like the guy that took MDMA and realized other people have feeling too
While I roll my eyes at the "JUST DO DMT BRO" Joe Rogan stans who clearly didn't gain much empathy from their fad drug of choice, if anything can shake a stock market sociopath from his planet-burning obsessions, great.
It may not always work but I'm glad it did this time.
When techbros microdose, with some exceptions, it often seems to futher Nick Landify them instead of grant them empathy.
Maybe it's a garbage-in-garbage-out thing.
Psychedelics are also used on the "pets" at creepy techbro sex parties as a sort of amateur-hour mind control thing, the trip guided along by the techbro telling the "pet" that she's a figment of his mind and exists only to please him. :kombucha-disgust:
Psychedelics are also used on the “pets” at creepy techbro sex parties as a sort of amateur-hour mind control thing, the trip guided along by the techbro telling the “pet” that she’s a figment of his mind and exists only to please him.
Everyone who did this should put against the wall
Psychedelics are also used on the “pets” at creepy techbro sex parties as a sort of amateur-hour mind control thing, the trip guided along by the techbro telling the “pet” that she’s a figment of his mind and exists only to please him
:jesus-christ: but also the BottomEnergy part of my brain says :panting:
It's one thing to be into hypnosis kinks between consenting adults. It's another for impressionable and often blindsided women just trying to get somewhere, anywhere in the silicon valley techbro hierarchy, getting coerced into being "pets" at these parties or else getting blacklisted for not being team players or whatever. And even if they do put out they're still marginalized and only kept around as long as the techbros get off to them.
Yeah that’s the very very important key. If this was just a normal person orgy where everyone knew what was up beforehand and consented without any sort of weird power structures (outside of kink) it’d be cool and hot.
I doubt this happening at Silicon Valley ghoul sex pest parties is safe or consensual.
It's coercive and it shuts out women if they don't play along and it marginalizes and objectifies the ones that do, and these techbros then have the audacity to complain that the feeemales are the ones taking advantage of them for their money. :kombucha-disgust:
Either way, women are put into a tidy convenient exploited corner. That's the worst part of it. Besides maybe the coercive drug-driven mind control hobby of far too many oligarchs.
My dipshit understanding of LSD is it sort of... opens up all the switches in your brain, and causes all the information to flow and blend freely. Makes sense that it might cause you to connect some dots, or re-realize things you'd forgotten or suppressed.
Check out "Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley. As a result of his experience with psychedelics he postulates that socialization creates stimulus constraints necessary for human survival and that psychedelics "open up the valve", so to speak. That's been my experience, too.
I got an incel to reconsider their views that women were all demon harpies withholding sex from him. I was borderline along that train of thought when I was younger so I could emphasize with them.
he would always revert to really odd patterns of thinking and expressing himself.
like what?
It's nice to hear stories about people growing and becoming better people. Everything is so fucking grim most days it's nice to have a reminder that things can get better.
I actually spend a lot of time thinking about how Vietnamese cadres went in to rural areas and formed education groups and educated rural people until farmers with little formal education had a firm grasp of communist theory. That's always been really inspiring to me. We can be really disdainful of the hogs, but there's proof that people with limited educational resources can learn complex theory if they're just given and opportunity and the resources necessary.
I remember hearing this saying once: "If you don't talk to them, they will."
You're a good person. It's a lot harder to try and reach people than to dunk on them
Damn, last time i took acid i stared at 70s floral print wallpaper and developed an obsession with peanut butter ice cream.
I stared at my ceiling fan until the lights inside looked like gods fighting in a cloudy sky
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I think it was in Tim Leary's "High Priest" or maybe Alan Watts' "Does It Matter?" or some such similar book, but I remember reading this hilarious anecdote of like some 1950s, Squaresville, USA parents writing into an advice column about their son.
As a reader 50 years later, it was obvious their early 20s kid had gotten into weed and shrooms/LSD, and had stepped off the rails of the day. But the parents were unable to understand what was going on. Out of nowhere, their jock-type success kid who had wanted to be an executive salesman or something, suddenly did not care about nice flashy things. He had sold many of these things and was much more interested in reading/travel. But not fancy travel, more like hostels and home stays. He was going to night school to learn a new language and was insatiably curious about foreign religious texts. He went everywhere dressed casually in comfortable clothes that seemed asian influenced. Embarrassing! He was explicitly anti-war suddenly. He was kinder and more pleasant to be around with extended family, especially his mother, but where had their son gone was the question. Was this a form of mental illness?
This is a funny post, but :reddit-logo: really needs to have the same disclaimer at the top of every page that 4chan does.
i used to spend a lot of time on the music board there and i dont understand what youre talking about. there are disclaimers at the top of the page, on every board there? what did they say? i literally never noticed
Oh I misremembered, it's only on top of /b/
The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
I mean, 4chan is a cesspit that should be burned, but that’s a pretty reasonably disclaimer
I think they removed it? It was something like "everything on this website is an absurd work of fiction. Only a fool would believe anything that's written on here"
looked it up, it's:
The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. > Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
17 year olds are still very much in the experimental stage of learning about politics, emotions, interpersonal relationships, and all sorts of other things. In a very real way you just don't have enough information at 17 years of age to make really well founded decisions.
So....they discovered a worldview that gets them ostracized by the majority of the population, they have learned some ugly truths about the world, and they have begun to understand the idea of embracing yourself even if you get ostracized instead of blind conformity to what is more fashionable to believe?
Soo....they became, based and redpilled?
Remember that Lil B, the creator of the term "Based", defines it as: “Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do." It's ironic that it became a reward term to refer to people who believe the right stuff and be what the normies tell you you should be.
I wrote this in a :reddit-logo: post, r/communism, actually... in 2018. I still stand by it, even though there is much else I said during that time I no longer would stand by:
Psychedelics are well known for inducing a sense of empathy and connectedness with things beyond oneself. Of course that includes other people, both in one's immediate social circle, but also humanity in general.
This is all anathema to right wing politics, so it's no surprise (to me) that chemicals that tend to expand not just a person's empathy, but also to new and different ways of thinking would also tend to erode reactionary worldviews (and strengthen compassionate worldviews).
I don't think this was lost on the powers of the status quo when they demonized and outlawed psychedelics, forcing their use to the social fringes. There's absolutely a reason that both psychedelic drug use enthusiasm and leftist ideologies are continuously confined to counter-culture. That said, using psychedelics is certainly not a sure way to cure a chud. Sadly. There are plenty reactionary fucks who have enjoyed a trip or a few, but ime, you'll find far fewer of them than you would leftist psychonauts.
For me, dissociative drugs (ketamine, MXE) were a definite stepping stone in my radicalization. I already considered myself pretty far left, but the beautiful ego death I achieved with them really cemented the political views that I felt were based on empathy and compassion.
Edit: shit, I wish I'd have seen this post earlier. I'm always late to the party.
