Politics and work

I recently heard Plato’s idea reflected that politicians should have no stake in the decisions they make. That they ought to live in some proto-communist society. In most European countries bribing politicians is illegal, in north America it’s called lobbying. Here’s my innovation: Let’s all be politicians. No doubt, we’ll be at least just as flawed. But the main flaw is that power corrupts, therefor we should all be equally flawed. Being able to make decisions without fear of repercussion. Risk aversion is a real psychological phenomenon. We’re afraid or too busy to think about these things. Making a decision without any repercussion isn’t taking a risk at all, so how can this be possible? We can’t guarantee the survival of the human species without interfering (further) with our habitat. There’s only one planet, we can’t pretend our resources are infinite. So what’s the solution to this very basic problem? My premise is that it is shouldn’t be left to someone else. Somebody who will take the time to think, the risk, the energy to investigate, the blame, … for us. Because we ARE all involved, whether we like it or not. We ALL have something at stake here. So let’s be equals in being able to make a decision. This is not centralism, nor leadership in the sense that it implies followers. Rather it includes the willingness to follow ideas and therefor the leadership to challenge them where they are not yet perfected. And they will never be perfected. Which is why we all have to pitch in. It’s not enough to leave it up to the ‘leaders’. YOU are the leader, just as much as you’re the follower. We can’t elect leaders, because we’ll effectively elect ourselves out of ‘office’. Now, nobody wants to be in the office. Not even politicians, they’re humans too. Some dare say that’s what makes (some) politicians voteworthy. I say it makes them equal to use. And no less, nor more qualified than us. On a brighter note, one could easily claim this is already the case. Therefor there’s nothing to worry about. Those who CONSIDER themselves to be entities with something at stake – be it lifeform, human, westerner, politician, etc. – already have such a system. Bankers profit from the socialism for the rich and the retards who refuse to be engaged end up with what’s often called capitalism. Which, using the strict definition (as I do), implies that some people have the money and others have the labor. Both are equally interchangeable at the marketplace which as only rule has Demand versus Supply. In labor markets, this implies simple things like: The more people are willing to work, the less their labor is (per capita) worth. So get off your arses and stop working! There are things to be done! I’ll come down to earth for a minute and keep some facts in mind. The problem with government is governing. The same problem exists within any structure of decisionmaking. These can claim to be egalitarian. However, in a socialist party there’s often more hierarchy than in others. This is hard to explain. I’ll give it a shot. Everybody gets behind the ideology rather than behind the idea of having ideas. Of course, a party system isn’t the only way. Nevertheless, it’s the one we see most clearly in what’s called the (in my opinion, very narrowly defined) political arena. When we vote, we are part of that system. Only at this moment. When we are unable to vote or influence this sphere, we are by very definition not part of that network. However, most people are at work most of the time (not voting). Who will defend your rights there? So far, if you’re ‘lucky’, it’s the unions. These are filled with human flaws as well as organisational flaws. But one thing is often left out. You’re there more often. This seems to be obviously stated in the premise. However, we don’t consider ourselves to be voting for our job (and working conditions) by showing up. But this is what we implicitly do by not getting fired. Now, being without a job is no fun. But neither is a job. This is what I mean when I talk about wage slavery. Now, one could argue that paying people to do something is the only way to go about things. It’s true, that being productive could and perhaps should be rewarded. But what would be the value of that? Is it to simply make the system function? Sure, you’re functional. But only in the way that you’re perpetuating a system. You’re being payed to be obedient, not to think for yourself. That would imply that you’re paying yourself Being productive enough so you’ll have freedom to be [a creative creature]. Most jobs however consist mainly out of not questioning authority. Authority generally doesn´t stand for that. That´s what I`m talking about when I refer to anarchism. This is not the same as anarchy, which can be used to refer to chaos. This term is often used with the implication that some consistent theory exists which can state the full description of reality which we all know and abide by, thereby avoiding chaos. The world is transparant and already at an optimum. This is a view I´ve tend to adopt when concluding that thinking more about the issue would be of little use. In that it´ll be too hard, depressing or exhausting.

The origin of humankind

It is easy to explain where we come from. To a child these are simply answers to simple questions. Matters of biology to be seen in nature or to be learned at school. It’s kids’ play. We come in metaphorical boxes. Fragile, this side up. How we become human is more difficult to extrapolate. More than mere animals, as childeren tend to behave. Once we become childlike again, this can be contrasted with years of sufficiency. Seniors treated as they’re anything but human, will respond as being degraded. Or, when senile, act like they’re in kindergarten.

One cannot converse with these creatures. Oddly enough, a prerequisite for finding out, is treating humans as humans and finding out just how rational and creative a thing we’re dealing with. The latter is a matter of distinguishing between computers and humans. The former, a matter of being able to distinguish. Logic, differentiating and weaving the input together with that has already been put out there, by descriptive reality are components or rational beings. This has been misinterpreted by philosophers, and tradionally it’s claimed only Kant was able to transcend this divide. Using formal systems to explain something we hold to be true on intuitive grounds. The irony is plain, most don’t understand what he’s talking about. His point however is that everybody should understand. It’s what we do. You’d be hardpressed to make the point to any human. This is tricky stuff we’re dealing with.

Belief, faith and other magical thinking are things we come across daily. Traditions, rituals and other stories circulate with high frequency. Often repeated to those prone to them. People with little education. Childeren’s heads are filled with meaningless fodder. Only rational minds can distinguish between random creation and meaningfull intended consequence. To origin of this meaning is of course, the human itself. Any blog could be hold as holy gospel. A revelation from the omni-anything. Passing through the person it becomes something, well personal. This is not why I write, luckily. I write to get thoughts out of my head. Not for them to be read. To read any of this and know it for the first time would be meaningless on a profound level. If you don’t know it already within yourself, no external authority will make you form new info in there that’s somehow more true. Endless babbling isn’t going to make you establish a better opinion. Go with your gut.

We only wonder about the alpha, the first, the beginning so we’d know how to contemplate something similar but radically different, the end. Or at least, the constant beginning. The recreating, the all enduring beginning. When it comes to genetics this is again, things any teenager could do. When it comes to political (in the broadest sense, encompassing socio-economic decision making) issues, let’s all just take care of each other. Somewhere in the world, a child dies every 4 seconds. Don’t worry, it’s not like we’ll run out of children. There are 2.2 billion of them, but 1 billion live in poverty. This does increase the odds a little in their favor. That sounds positive, HIV positive.

If you can take care of plantlife, consider animals. Consider the homo sapiens if you don’t think adopting is an ugly word. Maybe try with lifeforms you care least for first. Because they will die, eventually. Best not to blame yourself too much for it, or try to die first. In the meanwhile, keep reading blogs you lazy fat-ass. But won’t somebody please think of the childeren? If that didn’t involve sudden flashes of the Simpsons , South Park or other hysteric soccermoms screaming of the top of their lungs, you’ve missed out. Stop whatever you’re doing (like getting paid while reading this) and get to it. You have culture to catch up on.

Mapping life

Beliefs are odd

Someone once said: I don’t care what you believe, but you’ve got to admit: Beliefs are odd.
I used to have this theory. It didn’t make much sense, but you need some guidelines to live by and change as you go along. That’s actually a pretty good description of any theory. Anyway, it went like this. Suppose there’s a fixed amount of heartbeats. Your heart isn’t your brain, but it does reflect your state of mind somewhat. The more you worry or have adrenaline pumping through your veins for whatever reason, the sooner your heart will run out of beats. Now, some people die before they run out of this set of heartbeats. How would you explain this? Well, easy. Replace the theory with a belief. First you need something more vague. Like pain. Buddha says life is suffering. We all know it to be true. Most of us try to laugh it off. Most jokes are about death or pain in some way. That’s why when we’re surprised by the sudden twist, we still care enough to react. With disgust if you’re a woman and it was a joke about violence. With men, it’s generally funny when somebody gets hurt. Either way, we have our pseudo-soul. Let the metaphysics begin. Suppose that there’s always more pain ahead of us than we could imagine. For the sake of arguement, suppose we can only imagine what we’ve experienced. So there’s more pain in the moments to come than there has been so far during your life. Just before you die, that’s the part where you’re dying, is when all the pain you’ve ever had is compounded and added with death itself. The longer you live, the more the pain is spread out. The shorter your lifespan, the more the pain is concentrated over a shorter period of time. It’s more intense and you run out of existence sooner. How’s that for a belief? Granted, it’s a little odd. But aren’t they all? I believe I prefaced it with that.

Health and nature

Hay fever makes me realize that eating vegetarian just makes plants even more pissed at me. Well, I don’t eat vegetarian all the time. More like flexitarian. Eating healthy. Meat if it’s served anyway (by someone else in a social setting) and flesh from animals that live in water is also okay with me. Or anything that lives near water. Ducks, cows, whatever really. Bill Bailey food as it were. No wait, plants started the war! I’m just fighting back! Yeah, that’s it. I’ll eat you all. I just can’t be around when I cut them or they’ll make me sick. Anti-sick actually. My immune system is going in overdrive. I should get superhealthy. That would be fair. Okay, okay, fine. I can’t go outside. So I stay inside. Here comes my other allergy. Also very common. To dust mites. Well, technically that’s no right either. It’s the secretion from dust mites. But not’s not very palatable. Yeah, you read that right. Their shit is stronger than I am. Life is horrible. I only have unlimited food, broadband access and opportunities to comfort me. Then again,that way I know what I’m missing. If only I was born in the Sudan. I’d be dead right now. But hey, can’t have it all.

I almost feel guilty trying to eat mostly vegetarian. Hans Teeuwen points out that hindus are retarded for not eating cows while starving (because most of them live in India and a lot of people there are dying from hunger). Of course, breeding mammals for food increases methane. Agro industry increases old fashioned CO2 emissions by using fossil fuels pretty much every step of the way (and replacing it with sugar based crops in the future, instead of feeding us with those deliciously addictive refined sugars). So what’s the answer? Well, instead of complaining about the bugs on our food; we coud eat them. All the protein, none of the bad side effects on health or environment. There’s plenty of insects. We’re not running out of those. Well, we are. But c’mon, they’re too small to even know most of the existing species yet. Well, most being the bigger part of all animals (excluding lifeforms such as bacteria, we know more about bigger, more easily spottable animals). There are only cultural barrieres for this. One is that in western societies, you need to partake in the economy to consume (food). You can’t just grow your own. That would be…cheap. Or worse, free. That would ruin the economy. On a moral level, there are less barrierers. We would eat vegan if we thought we could live this way. Most don’t consider it healthy, if only because you need to enjoy your food. One step up the food chain is vegetarian. One more is omnivore. Going on is carnivore. Eating (certain) mammals is ussually not-done, because they’re too cute. And if you really love things that resemble us, you’ll be a cannibal. Most tribes ate the hearts of the other warrior out of respect. In psychological, instead of sociological terms, you would eat your loved one. Eating yourself is a bit tricky, but can also be done. This is called self-cannabalism. If there weren’t an overpopulatoin problem and we couldn’t solve it with soylent green, this would be a good solution. When animals eat their childeren, we all hope it’s because they’re starving. Either that or they’re more fucked up than we are (or want to mate, and there’s no incentive to if you already have a kid). Like so:Yeah, it’s pretty sick.

Chomsky quotes

I was looking for this quote, but it turns out it was on Wikipedia. So you can disregard the interview below. But not the quote!

If you had asked my grandmother whether she is oppressed, she probably wouldn’t have understood what you are talking about; that’s life. If you’d asked my mother, you’d have found that she resented it, but accepted it, as life. If you’d ask my daughters, they’d tell you to get lost. That reflects hard-won victories for freedom.

* ZNet forum reply, December 26, 2004 [163]

from an interview in 2004
We understand the crimes of others but canʼt understand our
own. Take that picture over there on the wall. What it is is the Angel
of Death, obviously. Off on the right is Archbishop Romero, who
was assassinated in 1980. The figures below are the six leading
Jesuit intellectuals who had their brains blown out in 1989, and their
housekeeper and her daughter, who were also murdered. Now, they
were murdered by an elite battalion armed, trained, and directed
by the United States. The Archbishop was murdered pretty much
by the same hands. Well, a couple of weeks ago there was a court
case in California where some members of the family of Romero
brought some kind of a civil suit against one of the likely killers and
actually won their case. Well, thatʼs a pretty important precedent,
but it was barely reported in the United States. Nobody wants to
listen. You know, Czeslaw Milosz was a courageous, good person.
And when he died there were huge stories. But he and his associates
faced nothing in Eastern Europe like what intellectuals faced in our
domains. I mean, Havel was put in jail. He didnʼt have his brains
blown out by elite battalions trained by the Russians. In Rwanda,
for about a hundred days they were killing about eight thousand
people a day. And we just went through the tenth anniversary. There
was a lot of lamentation about how we didnʼt do anything about it,
and how awful, and we ought to do something about other peopleʼs
crimes, and so on. Thatʼs an easy one—to do something about other
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peopleʼs crimes. But you know, every single day, about the same
number of people—children—are dying in Southern Africa from
easily treatable diseases. Are we doing anything about it? I mean,
thatʼs Rwanda-level killing, just children, just Southern Africa,
every day—not a hundred days but all the time. It doesnʼt take
military intervention. We donʼt need to worry about whoʼs going to
protect our forces. What it takes is bribing totalitarian institutions to
produce drugs. It costs pennies. Do we think about it? Do we do it?
Do we ask what kind of a civilization is it where we have to bribe
totalitarian institutions in order to get them to produce drugs to stop
Rwanda-level killing every day? Itʼs just easier not to think about it.
WS: Totalitarian institutions—you mean the drug companies?
NC: Yes. What are they? The drug companies are just totalitarian
institutions which are subsidized: most of the basic research is
funded by the public, there are huge profits, and of course from
a business point of view it not only makes sense, but itʼs legally
required for them to produce lifestyle drugs for rich Westerners to
get rid of wrinkles, instead of malaria treatments for dying children
in Africa. Itʼs required. Itʼs legally required.
WS: How do we get out from under that?
NC:Well, the first thing we have to do is face it. Until you face
it, you canʼt get out from under it. Take fairly recent things like
the feminist movement—womenʼs rights. I mean, if you had asked
my grandmother if she was oppressed she would have said no. She
wouldnʼt have known what you were talking about. Of course she
was stuck in the kitchen all day, and she followed orders. And the idea
that her husband would do anything around the house . . . I mean,
my mother would not allow my father, or me, for that matter, into
the kitchen. Literally. Because we were supposed to be studying the
Talmud or something. But did they think they were oppressed? Well,
actually, my mother already felt that she was. But my grandmother
didnʼt. And to get that awareness—you know, itʼs not easy.
India is interesting in this respect. There have been some very
careful studies, and one of the best was about the province of Uttar
Pradesh. It has one of the lowest female to male ratios in the world,
not because of female infanticide, but because of the shitty way
women are treated. And I mean, I was shocked to discover that in
the town where I live, Lexington, which is a professional, upper
middle class community—you know, doctors, lawyers, academics,
stockbrokers, mostly that sort of thing—the police have a special unit
for domestic abuse which has two or three 911 calls a week. Now,
you know, thatʼs important. Because thirty years ago, they didnʼt
have that, because domestic abuse was not considered a problem.
Now at least itʼs considered a problem, and police forces deal with
it, and the courts deal with it in some fashion. Well, you know, that
takes work—it takes work to recognize that oppression is going on.
This was very striking to me in the student movement in the ʼ60s.
I mean, I was pretty close to it, and those kids were involved in
something very serious. You know, they were very upset, and they
hated the war, and they hated racism, and their choices werenʼt
always the right ones by any means, but they were very emotional
about it, for very good reasons. . . .
I was involved particularly with the resisters, who were
refusing to serve in the army. Theyʼre now called “draft evaders”
and so on, but thatʼs bullshit. I mean, almost all of them could
have gotten out of the draft easily. A lot of them were theology
students, and others—youʼd go to your doctor, and heʼd say you
were a homosexual or something. It was nothing for a privileged
kid to get out of the army if he wanted to. They were choosing
to resist. And facing serious penalties. For an eighteen-year-old
kid to go to jail for years or live their life in exile was not an
easy choice—especially when, of course, if you conformed, you
would just shoot up there and be part of the elite. But they chose
it, and it was a courageous decision, and they were denounced
for it and condemned for it and so on. . . . At some stage of the
game, the feminist movement began. In the early stages of the
resistance, the women were supposed to be supportive, you know,
to these resisters. And at some stage these young women began
to ask, Why are we doing the shit-work? I mean, why are we the
ones who are supposed to look up in awe at them, when weʼre
doing most of the work? And they began to regard themselves as
being oppressed. Now that caused a rather serious psychological
problem for the boys. Because they thought, and rightly, that they
were doing something courageous and noble, and here suddenly
they had to face up to the fact that they were oppressors, and
that was hard. I mean, I know people who committed suicide.
Literally. Because they couldnʼt face it.
So, just in our lifetime, itʼs different. The kinds of things that
were considered normal—not just normal, un-noticeable, you
didnʼt see them—thirty or forty years ago, would be unspeakable
now. The same with gay rights. There have been big changes in
consciousness, and theyʼre important, and they make it a better
world. But they do not affect class issues. Class is a dirty word in
the United States. You canʼt talk about it.
One of my daughters teaches in a state college in which the
aspirations of most of the students are to become a nurse or a
policeman. The first day of class (she teaches history) she usually
asks her students to identify their class background. And it turns
out there are two answers. Either theyʼre middle class, or theyʼre
underclass. If their father has a job, like as a janitor, theyʼre middle
class. If their father is in jail or transient, then itʼs underclass. Thatʼs
it. Nobodyʼs working class. Itʼs just not a concept that exists. Itʼs
not just here—itʼs true in England too. I was in England a couple of
months ago at the time of the Cannes Festival, when Michael Moore
won, and one of the papers had a long interview with him, and the
interviewer was suggesting that Michael Moore wasnʼt telling the
truth when he said he came from a working class background. He
said he came from a working class background, but his father had a
car and owned a house, so, you know, whatʼs this crap about coming
from a working class background? Well, his father was an auto
worker! I mean, the whole concept of class in any meaningful sense
has just been driven out of peopleʼs heads. The fact that there are
some people who give the orders and others who follow them—that
is gone. And the only question is, how many goods do you have?—
as if, if you have goods, you have to be middle class, even if youʼre
just following the orders.
WS: What you possess determines how people see you and
how you see yourself. That defines you—your role in the social
structure does not.
NC: People are trained—and massive efforts go into this—people
are trained to perceive their identity and their aspirations and their
value as people in terms of the things they amass. Nothing else. And
in terms of yourself, not anyone else . . . Itʼs kind of interesting to
watch this campaign against Social Security going on, and to see the
attitudes. I see it even among students. And the reason certain people
hate Social Security so much is not just that if you privatize it, itʼs a
bonanza for Wall Street. Iʼm sure thatʼs part of it, but the main reason
for the real visceral hatred of Social Security is that itʼs based on a
principle that they want to drive out of peopleʼs heads—namely, that
you care about somebody else. You know, Social Security is based
on the idea that you care whether the disabled widow on the other
side of town has enough food to eat. And youʼre not supposed to
think that. Thatʼs a dangerous sentiment. Youʼre supposed to just
be out for yourself. And I get this from young people now. They
say, Look, I donʼt see why I should be responsible for her. Iʼm not
responsible for her. I didnʼt do anything to her. I mean, if she didnʼt
invest properly or, you know, something like that, thatʼs not my
business. Why do I have to pay my taxes to keep her alive? And
why do I care if the kid down the street canʼt go to school? I mean,
I didnʼt keep him from going to school.

Traffic quotations

Seth Abrahams is played by the same actor who played Eric Forman on that 70’s show, Topher Grace. Talk about typecasting. Unless you think vague cannabis references are different from using white chemicals that often include baking soda; sugars, such as lactose, dextrose, inositol, and mannitol; and local anesthetics, such as lidocaine or benzocaine, which mimic or add to cocaine’s numbing effect on mucous membranes. And almost always includes ether, ammonia, acetone and kerosine in transforming the coca paste.
Robert Wakefield is played by Michael Douglas. They couldn’t get Nicolos the Second for the part. Either way, the war is on. After all, drugs can ruin your life. And that’s the government’s job.
Source:
Seth Abrahams: [high on coke] We act like we have all the answers and we’re totally invincible, like our parents seem and their parents before them, and I’m sorry, that I have to be the one to say this, but it’s fucking bullshit. For instance I know that you jack-off to Caroline every night instead of Vanessa, who you’re supposed to be in love with. Whatever that… don’t even get me started on that convention, I mean, think about it. What is that convention? We’re this random collection of self-interest all of a sudden , and we just decide that we’re just gonna, we’re just gonna walk two by two down the fucking aisle to you know, Noah’s ark?

Teacher: [Robert Wakefield drags Seth out of class to help look for his missing daughter] Can I help you?
Robert Wakefield: Seth has to be excused. He’s going on a field trip.

Robert Wakefield: I can’t believe you brought my daughter to this place.
Seth Abrahams: Woah. Why don’t you just back the fuck up, man. “To this place”? What is that shit? Ok, right now, all over this great nation of ours, ‘hundred thousand white people from the suburbs are cruisin’ around downtown asking every black person they see “You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?” *Think* about the effect that that has on the psyche of a black person, on their possibilities. I… God I guarantee you bring a hundred thousand black people into your neighborhood, into fuckin’ Indian Hills, and they’re asking every white person they see “You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?”, within a *day* everyone would be selling. Your friends. Their kids. Here’s why: it’s an unbeatable market force man. It’s a three-hundred percent markup value. You can go out on the street and make five-hundred dollars in two hours, come back and do whatever you want to do with the rest of your day and, I’m sorry, you’re telling me that… you’re telling me that white people would still be going to law school?

[walks into building with daughter in it]

[Robert Wakefield has offered the drug dealer a bribe for information about his missing daughter]
Drug Dealer: Who in the FUCK do you think you are? Where the fuck do you think you are, and why the fuck don’t I just put your ass in a dumpster?
Robert Wakefield: [Shaking, scared] … I… I got money…
Drug Dealer: [Infuriated] I got money!
Robert Wakefield: I’ve got a thousand dollars in my pocket; it’s for you.
Drug Dealer: If I want your money man, I will TAKE your money!

Rome is on fire

If we fight fire, we reserve something for it to feast on later on. I do not suggest we let it burn, while building new societies. But there´s something do be said for prevention and leisure.

Empire: Total War Troubleshooting

This is something out of the ordinary in my blog, but I think something people would like the answer to nonetheless.
When playing Sega’s latest game, you may encounter a series of crashes (in vista: the game has stopped working). Here’s some workarounds and tips.
If you play multiplayer, try both having a different legal version. This has been a burden the entire series. If you’re playing alone, try going into offline mode in steam (I’ve read this elsewhere and well may decrease the number of crashes). Then there’s the people who advise you to reinstall windows untill you get it working and than not touch anything anymore and be happy. If this feels a bit too much, try my approach. This is what happened to me and how I fixed it.
First, I couldn’t finish chapter two in the road to independance. There was bug which blocked the rest of the map off. I started playing grand campaign instead. After beginning my second grand campaign, I encountered far too many crashes causing me to save more, which in turn turned out to be corrupt a lot of the time (entire batches), causing me to save even more. After finishing this campaign, I decided to reinstall. Again, as with the original installation, the cd’s were read way too fast -even for my computer- and I assume the entire game was downloaded through steam. It didn’t seem to crash anymore though!
I started the road to independance again, hoping to get better results. Again, the same thing happened, but in between it was obvious there was more than the black shrouds of mist. So I restarted the mission in chapter II. I restarted and restarted again untill I followed the instructions more carefully, this couldn’t have taken over a couple of hours of playing (there aren’t many choices, so you just click and press enter). I have now finishe that chapter and moved on to United States (if you win the rts battle you’ll get a “Following” if not, “Despite” as the first word of your advisers’ info after the cutscene).
In short, don’t reinstall if you need bandwith. Save and restart games if they crash or are bugged. Entire batches could be corrupt though.
I hope this helps.

Psychoanalysis and therapeutic effects.

Departing from Freudian analysis, I shall mainly take a more bioneural approach to the brain. Not disregarding concepts of the mind, as stablished by C.G. Jung and partners; this will be my main focus.

Sigmeund Freud has to be placed in historical context. In a time when fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes were hailing the use of cocaine, it did not take long for Freud to look at it as a “wonderous medicine”. He, of course, explains his increased libido as a central enforced personal trait. In patients, he sees it makes them “more normal” and administers it if they feel depressed. After some research is done on this chemically refined use of coca leaves, he is devasted by the scientific consensus: It’s highly addictive and worse than a cup of coffee (which were the effects when chewed as done by native americans for millenia). He goes on to work with C. G. Jung, who places emphasis on the collective consciousness. We have evidence from 5000B.C. that mushrooms were used in Central and South America were reverence. The molecular biology of
and deserves attention at this point.

These subjects are controversial because they were outlawed (but recreational users and medicinal research) during times of racism. A class of people was seen as not being able to control themselves. ‘Crazed negro’ with a ‘bullet to the heart…in self-defense’ would not stop a cocaine pumped agent of that class. This would leave a scar on our social consciousness and psychological freedom restricted to an irrational degree. After alcohol and opium, cocaine was pronounced as the third scourge of mankind. Pemberton treated his morphine addiction with a cocaine drink to provide an alternative to an alcoholic beverage (outlawed during the latest dry era). However in 1970 through the controlled substances act, research on psychedelics and cannabis (still described as marihuana to link it with mexicans rather than the industrial crop hemp) is prohibited. However, psychedelics are by definition:
From Greek psykhe- “mind” (see psyche) + deloun “make visible, reveal,” from delos “visible, clear.” Psychedelia is from 1967. Earliest in 1956, of drugs, suggested by H. Osmond in a letter to Aldous Huxley and used by Osmond in a scientific paper published the next year.
Fitting into a larger criminal market for over 300 billion dollars and over 200 billion euros a year, it remains outcast to the darkest corners of society.
Unlike coffee, alcohol in most countries and tabacco; these products are doomed to make profits near the size of oil revenus of users and addicts, none of whom receive any honest help from their government of social milieu. Most is based on myth and tradition, being biased one way or the other, without relevant data or educational information explaining levels of dependency, mortality rate and so forth.
This is part of the grander setting in which the Self must seated. The set, the internal framework of those who would use a substance to alter their state of mind and thereby enhance the effects of psychoanalysis and/or therapy. The id, ego and superego would in a freudian framework be connected to the set. The ego would be unable to reconcile with the superego on the basis that reality is slanted and only Id could possibly arise from such an irrational disaster.
In other words, the experience becomes tainted. Tryptamines are associated with trips, which are in turn associated with the possibility of a bad trip. In the free associations game that goes on during synaptic free firing neurons, such a view of reality is skewed and causes baseless conceptions of the world to enter what is essentially, a very delicate moment. In other, more ancient, cultures, traditions and rituals would do the same by declaring these as sacred. To view perceptions as real, say gods or aliens; would be to miss the point. Psychotherapy and sjaminism deserve no greater place on the cast system of society than mechanics and mathmeticians.
A lot of energy must first be invested in fixing such a society, which must divide and structure so competitivly.
No one occupation, status, class or use of leisure time should define a person in its entirety. I say it, because it’s a conceptual structure. This abstract person extends to all categorical aspects of life (social, political, economical, territorial, structural). The biological perspective has a lot of evolutionary twists and turns, so for now I’ll leave this page as it is. All of this should be part of the educational system. We ought to learn the basics of food. Nutrition and toxins for the body and mind.