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> I think a lot of people were increasingly on edge before the pandemic, and the isolation really didn't help them with their mental health. This is my take as well. I personally v…

Didn’t they break the krokodil story in the mid-2010s? That coverage was some of the best footage I’ve ever seen. I think they also did that crazy shoot about the drug that turns p…

That was true of indigenous people all over the world who were forced to learn English to trade. It doesn’t change the fact that English went global because of colonization, not be…

National Library of New Zealand: "During the period of colonization…Maori were banned from speaking their native language in public places including schools, and forced to speak th…

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Why do you think an irreversible binomial employed as a thought-terminating cliché in the form of an argumentum ergo decedo is an appropriate response?

English is widely spoken because it was the colonial language enforced at the highest levels of society. This is still true today and is currently a primary plank in the political …

What a strange hill to die on. English is the colonial language, and its global success was singularly due to imperialist hegemony. This is taught at the university system level an…

> who have come to use English for one reason or another Pretty sure that singular reason was colonialism.

Probably best to start with Richard Evans Schultes. The book list is at the bottom of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Evans_Schultes

There is no evidence for any neurochemical basis, as my follow up post later in the thread explains. It’s purely in the realm of psychedelic lore, anecdotal observation, and weak p…

The problem is most people read "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" (line 3) and neglect line 46: "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than en…

Interesting. Ayahuasca has been described as the archetype of the Amazon jungle, while DMT alone has the archetype of the circus.

That’s correct, but each substance itself also has a similar, corresponding description or form. The "essence of womanhood" is often associated with the correct dosage of Salvia, f…

You don’t need to take any DMT (or any other substance for that matter) to explore and experience this subject. The interesting thing about Shanon is how he collected data about Am…

Name one. The only controversial thing I said is in the choice of specific terms and descriptions, which I acknowledge below with the following sources. For example, there is a deb…

I’m sad to say that I had never heard of her, but it sounds like she was influential and made her mark and had a way with words. One thing that struck me is how she was suffering f…

I spent some time trying to parse your comment, but I’m afraid I just couldn’t do it. Right wing violence is the largest form of extremism in the US today. It is also largely based…

When you research the history of the KKK, you will see that they were purveyors of the original blocks and bans; whenever a non-Christian or non-white spoke out about equal treatme…

I don’t agree, and it appears to me that those who embrace the facade of free speech absolutism always turn out to provide forums for blocks, bans, and threats of political violenc…

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