Auto-SummaryThe post argues that the failure of the "war on drugs" highlights the need for a better approach to marijuana and mushroom use. It suggests that governments are creating terrible settings for drug experiences through threats of imprisonment and other punishments, which ultimately harms society. The author posits that humanity has successfully created enjoyable settings for other drugs like candy, alcohol, and cigarettes, and proposes that the same principles should be applied to marijuana and mushrooms. Key points include:
1. A positive mushroom environment leads to a better human environment.
2. Humans have used technology and government to improve settings.
3. The drug war has failed; prohibition doesn't work.
4. Governments are creating terrible settings for drug use, which discourages it.
5. We should learn from past mistakes and create better settings for drug experiences.
6. Art and culture reflect the influence of psychedelics, pointing to a positive future.
7. Prohibition is ineffective; freedom and cooperation are the solutions.
The post concludes by warning that a world without drugs would be bleak, citing dystopian films and historical tragedies as examples.
The Set is Humanity, and the Setting is Earth. Evolution on mushrooms has caused simian mind Sets to make bodily actions that change their environment, and thereby change the earthly Setting. I think thats roughly why humans are here now. There is a direct correlation between an enjoyable mushroom setting and a beneficial human environment. If it's a fun place to eat mushrooms, then it's a good place to live, and vice versa. Humans have invented technology to make the setting better. We predict the weather (nature) so we will know what places will be best to go to for setting.
Humans also created governments to control their societies. Now, some of these governments have decided to wage a war on "drugs". The war has not only failed, but is being lost. In the process, some things were put on a list of bad "drugs" that shouldnt have been: mushrooms and marijuana. What are governments really trying to do with the drug war? What is their strategy? Trying to eradicate or control drugs has been a failure, and there is no reason to believe that it ever will succeed. Maybe we shouldn't believe that is their goal. A goal that is unattainable must have its approaches questioned.
Governments are controlling the setting in which drugs are taken. If the setting is terrible, then drug experience will be terrible. Therefore users will not want to experience drugs. A problem with this approach is that life in general must become terrible in order to make drug experiences terrible. An environment where the threat of imprisonment, shooting, beating, theft of home and property, is a terrible setting. This is a terrible setting for anyone, intoxicated or sober. This is the setting that governments are trying to create, despite the resistance of their citizens.
How they have resisted! We can safely enjoy eating candy and chocolate, drinking a beer, having a cup of coffee, or puffing on a cigarette. Humanity has succeeded in creating a proper setting for these drug experiences. Our mission now, is to learn from our past, and create a setting for the marijuana and mushroom experiences. Humanity, as a whole, has failed in their approaches so far. Yet I have faith that the goal can be reached.
Humanity must improve the Earth, by living with nature, by using technology. We must master the art of cooperation and teamwork, understanding and tolerance. We must make more music, more movies, more art, for all of these things make us smarter. Education, governments, police; these are all part of a proper setting. Use what works, stop using what doesn't. Prohibition doesn't work: freedom does. Prohibitionists act like bratty snotnosed kids running around with guns, they need to grow up. Anti-druggies are afraid because they believe the pro-drug community wants everyone to be doing drugs all the time, which is not true. Here's an analogy: psychedelics are kinda like the zoo: you dont visit the zoo every day, just once and a while, a few people love the zoo, most people dont go to the zoo. Even though not everyone likes the zoo, some people do, and that is their choice, and it benefits all. That is freedom, and freedom works.
The success of parts of the Drug War would be a failure for all humanity. A life of constant war, torture, hate, rape, injustice, shitty art? That doesn't sound good to me; that is what a world without psychedelics represents. Look at all of our art, it cries out this message. Any view of the future without drugs is terrible: Terminator, 1984, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Starship Troopers, Aliens, Total Recall, Minority Report, etc. So many views of the horrible past where we tried to live without good: Schindlers List, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Paths of Glory. Art that masterfully shows how horrible life can be. I believe we need new art to show us positive visions of the future: a setting that people would love to live in!
There is a whole lot of art out now that reveals the influence of psychedelics. 2001, Lord of the Rings, American Beauty, Contact, Austin Powers, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, etc. Basically, alot of good stuff that has come out post 1960. Most of these movies don't explicitly talk about or mention psychedelics, but the influence is undeniable. In 2001 we can imagine that the black monolith is a metaphor for the mushroom. Lord of the Rings has mushroom folklore written all over it, and as a plus the protagonists smoke weed. There are tons of abstract connections out there; movies are just beginning to show them, music is getting deeper and deeper into them. Art is connecting deeper with reality. In creating better art, we are creating a better setting, because art is a part of the setting.
DISCLAIMER: This post has no point. It is a rant about a hypothetical planet named Eart. It is in no way the same planet Earth which we all share, even though the fool who wrote it misspelt 'Eart' with an extra 'h' in many places. 
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man = monkey + mushroom
Edited by pattern (09/23/02 10:08 PM)
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