| I'm not sure how old you are, nor your familiarity with the history behind Silicon Valley and "Drugs" --- >The opioid epidemic was largely caused by the idea of them being non addictive being heavy pushed by the pharmaceuticals industry. False - there was never the "idea" that these were non-addictive - it was an active, malicious, evil fucking LIE. --- One of the co-founders of Cisco, and one of the fathers of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), (as well as RIP, etc) - - which is aurguably the foundations of routing which makes the Internet possible, stated, in response to Hoffman's 100th birthday celebration (the discoverer of LSD): (Paraphrased, mostly: "I was opposed to drug testing of employees at Cisco as we scaled -- if it weren't for LSD we wouldn't have been able to come up with many of the complex concepts behind BGP" Here is one article on it: https://www.wired.com/2006/01/lsd-the-geeks-wonder-drug/ I know first hand how much Drug/"anti-Culture" is imbued in Silicon Valley, computing in general. I have done many a drug with many a people who have built the shit that the world lives and thrives on daily. There is a STARK difference between a mood altering suppressant such as an opioid and expand nootropic drugs, such as LSD and Shrooms. Both of which are IMO some of the most important psycho-actives we have. You are touching something (your machine) and consuming content (netflix etc) built by many people who have benefited, and thus had you benefit, from their experiences with 'altered-conscious'.... The Sackler Family is an evil piece of shit family that should be worse than in prison.... But The internet and Computing as we know it, would not exist if it were not for people who do not accept the simplicity of base reality and can operate at higher levels at times with the help of LSD/Shrooms. its funny how one may equate "harmful addiction" with the USE of such substance.... in fact, my counter-culture DNA has shown me my entire life - that "the establishment" literally is quelling human growth because of the fact that using these reveals the fragility and tenuous control they actually have. In fact, I am sitting here with a book that one of my best friends just sent me - "The Fabric of Reality" (by David Deutsch) and in all likelihood, this evening you will be using tech that he has helped build... The only thing that is "too good to be true" is when someone else tells you definitively that you must do and act "this way" because we said so. (Look at the fucking state of the world at this moment -- you think that all these governments and institutions know what the fuck they are talking about? - no...) Go microdose some shrooms for good measure. |