I was dubious at first about Sohrab’s Compact Mag. It seemed low on Shannon information. The magazine has improved, and it’s worth the price now. Many of its articles offer insights or information that I couldn’t acquire by experience.
In this piece on the drug-infested Tech Tyrants, the author focuses on a cult leader named Muraresku who sees psychedelics as the ultimate savior and problem-solver in a fully religious sense.
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“It’s time to cut out the middleman in the private search for transcendence,” Muraresku writes. The middleman is organized religion and its “army of spokesmen” who have forgotten their ancient pharmacological roots. As opposed to their hollow rituals, he says, psychedelics introduce you to “a God that makes sense”; “A God that you can actually experience”; “A God that erases depression and anxiety like a cosmic surgeon, obliterates the fear of death, and sends a shock wave of love through your fragile heart.” In other words, God in easy-to-digest pill form.
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We heard this shit in the hippie era. If presidents and executives would get stoned, perfect equality and total love and world peace would ensue.
In fact the opposite happened. The rulers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley and DC are stoned, and we have maximum inequality, permanent war, absolute tyranny and misery for everyone except the rulers.
Stoned rulers give us Effective Altruism and grinding poverty.
When CIA and NSA work hard to develop an idea, their goal is NOT peace and love and equality. See also the web and bitcoin.
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