Summary - If you were in this position as a patient or the friend or family of someone completely pickled by trauma, if this option were available and you knew there was a better chance at recovery, wouldn’t you prefer this option to be made available to as many people as possible?
yes
 

luka

Well-known member
its true actually that is what is happening and this thread is a way to iron out the kinks and try and avoid the dangers that come with that. a lot of my recent threads have been about it actually. its going to be cool and we are going to have a lot of fun.
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
Yeah perhaps postmodernism can be figured as the recoil from the sensation that not all knowledge is confined to factuality. Like if someone needs emprical proof for the existence of god, and just continue to drift into depsondancy and alienation within their overly scientific project of total knowledge, they would exhibit symptoms that are microcosmically analogous to postmodernism.

Anyway, yeah I see the dominance of science over gnosis, within the pursuit of total knowledge, to give rise to something like postmodernism culturally and ideologically.
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
And I do think metamodernism is an academic bridge from that state of postmodernism to a sort of postpostmodern gnosis. But along that bridge, you need to expand beyond science and academic discourse, and I don't know if metamodernism touches upon that really. That is I;m not sure if gnosis really figures into metamodernism, as it should.
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
But ultimately yeah I don't think it holds as much water as I once made it out to hold. But I do still consider it as having merits, in terms of getting past postmodernism. Although maybe its only effective for hyperintellectuals, which is to say those who rely too much on their intellect, such that they are effectively blinded to some degree.
 

woops

is not like other people
i love that post @WashYourHands but i'm cynical you'll see any government soon giving out psychedelics as medicine when no government wants to be seen to legalise weed
sad but true tho innit? ruinously addictive corporate opioids are much more in sync with the times
 
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WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
@woops it’s grim Britannia amplified. Sickening even. Counterpoint is more people are seeking these psychedelic options out for healing, but we all know how attitudes have been marketed to eg the first Sun headline of “Joe Rogan caused my son to think he could fly”.

Britain’s a combination drug abuse country more than most. Our synthetic opioid problem isn’t comparable to the U.S’s. Scotland maintain though. It’s surprisingly difficult to maintain a pain script here short of terminal illness nationally, compounded by fluctuating illicit potency. Most heroin deaths are in their 50’s. One batch of smack could test 10%, another cut with Fentanyl still lethal.

Adding illicit benzos has been the most damaging. Brutal death rates. Full legalisation is the sane response. Weed is already available medically in the UK, ie you can get a script.
 
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