...we're gonna have to re-evaluate old concepts of free speech and democracy.
Everyone's on anti depressants/sleepers/speed, the chuds are blasting testosterone out their ears until they stroke, weed is everywhere and as potent as heroin.
Add the perfect dopamine delivery system, a political internet economy modeled on the addictive technology of vegas slot machines.
It's gonna have an effect on the national psyche.
Is it a partial explanation for Q?
Shout out to the divorced, biker, small business tyrant, dad...caught with test injectables and thc edibles, and guns, after the Capitol. Just the only man for the moment.
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edit: gotta step away for now. will come back to this. Feels like this post was misunderstood, or I just didn't make enough sense. Hope it won't make things awkward when i slide into selected PMs asking for a plug 😀
Hasn't there always been widespread use of drugs? You used to be able to legally buy heroin and cocaine as medicinal. And even when they became illegal, it never really stopped. The Drug War didn't do shit either. You compare that with everything that has happened in a century. It's hard to see a strict correlation between drug use and the higher political order of things.
I think what has more of an effect on the national psyche is being lied to. People can see they're being lied to. Or if not lying it's the contradictions in media. It's that we need to be worried about terrorism arbitrarily. It's the President is the greatest threat to democracy yet we need to vote. It's one immediate crisis after another. Every week. For decades. And covid was just a harder hit of that. Don't wear a mask, wear one or you're evil. Stay inside, be safe, go out and vote. Go to work, shop. Social distance, here's your governor going to a celebrity party in the Hamptons.
The constant whiplash is hurting us.
It's a fair point. I wonder though if the intensity, the stimulation overload, of modern life mixed with all the prescription pharmaceuticals is maybe creating a new dynamic. When combined with the whiplash, the contradictions of LSC, with the added psychosis of ONLINE.....I think there's something new.
I mean, SSRIs are prescribed for kids and pets now ffs. To quit smoking, even. Anything to avoid paying for talk therapy. Wonder how that'll be viewed in 25 years.
edit: As an example, caffeine is proven to make you more suggestible. Have any studies been done on other substances?
it's just so beautiful
I mean, prescribing drugs isn't new "Give your kids laudanum and cocaine at night!" was a thing as late as 1930.
you're making the exact point I was replying to.