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[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

do (drug) become better person

I hate this proposition because I feel it also comes from an extremely western and commodity-brained, colonial standpoint. No matter tons of indigenous and ancient peoples have/had ellaborate rituals with a collective cultural meaning and weight around taking any of their (often sacred) psychoactives, you just need show up at a chaman's home, slide him a 100 and say "one spiritual epiphany please", as if you were walking into a 7/11 and buying a stick of gum.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Even this thread has some "did you do DMT? No? You can't doubt DMT's cure-all power. Case closed." smuglord takes in it.

Clearly Joe Rogan and much of his fandom didn't magically become loving inclusive enlightened people by way of DMT, or any of the other cure-alls that he pushes on his fandom, but that seems lost on the "just do DMT" people.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

You're right in that it's not a miracle cure for brainworms but I really doubt most of Joe Rogan's fanbase actually took it. It's not really that easy to come by.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

If it's not that easy to come by, that drive-by "DID YOU TAKE DMT BRO?" smugpost I received seems even more petty now.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Uh ok sure, not sure why you're so hostile about this tho, it does actually help some people.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I never said it couldn't.

My point is the reactive hostility I received just mentioning that it shouldn't be assumed to be an automatic cure-all or universal person improvement shortcut.

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