some podcasts about research and history of how psychedelics and the counterculture contributed to the development of the internet and computing technologies rather than just make everyone “stupid” (like cops^1 and the DOD^2) ---->
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-sense-of-rebellion/id1750937342
*1 https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/
*2 https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/pentagon-audit-budget-fraud/
Police and the military are a far more stupid matter.
Return to monke?
Is “monke” referring to a more atavistic, less socially complex and industrial society? I was always impressed when I read linguists and experts on culture (like Claude Levi-Strauss) discuss how complex and developed societies still are intellectually complex and elaborate even if there aren’t a lot of consumer products of capitalist industry piled up around someone. We can make money out of chips and code so anyone critical of it must be stupid. Still, automation makes things a lot easier but we don’t use that to liberate the masses in capitalist society. Everyone still has to work hard and there is scarcity when there should be abundance and leisure with higher tech.
The image is very interesting. Mickey mouse turned into an angry wolf. Is “big” tech implied here?
I didn’t notice the Mickey Mouse shorts, but I do wonder why the wolf appears to be dropping acid.
heck of a snarl for sure
Oh, I see the stamp now.
Well, there were Eleusisian mysteries (trance from chant and drumming?) and the Oracle of Delphi was said to have inhaled fumes that gave the Priestess her visions of prophesy. I don’t consider states of consciousness produced by anything but stimulants like coffee to be the only legitimate and productive modes of perception.
Counter culture and altered states invented the net. There is a good amount of academic literature about that. Here’s Columbia: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-01b6-0187
Not that I have or ever do drugs myself. Just an admirer of the classics.
I am certain, however, that the government is on something awful that makes them all stupid and huge assholes.