/lit/ - Literature

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>hallucinogenics

well, i was really enthusiastic, that's for sure. but i was also fortunate to have really good friends and all the other intangibles that matter. so i really tried to be as open-minded as i could. in the end i actually found shrooms were the most unpredictable of all and quite frankly my least favorite of things. but tastes vary. in the end it was all quite wonderful tho.

>economics/religion

i mean ward makes the case quite well, but you can read him on that.

basically the main concept is libidinal economics. baudrillard, deleuze, land, girard, heidegger, bataille...lots and lots of other guys...the economy isn't a purely discrete and material phenomenon. it runs on feelings, in the end. and this is really to my mind where a kind of paradigm shift in our thinking is required, for lots of reasons. i'll give you one example: facebook. the thing is, without getting too political, that it's possible that we have begun to create new model economies that run on psychological processes unlike what we have seen before. facebook is just a transmitter, ultimately, but it's also so much more. so is google. or monetized YouTube clips (that in turn threaten media hegemony). and other things. money makes things real, but it can only sort of catch up on what people are paying attention to, which is...what other people are paying attention to...and so on and so on. it's a highly mimetic world like this, and the universities no longer have any kind of high ground to comment on it. for better and for worse.

the SPLC's war on maajid nawaz is another example. it's possible that we can simply grow *phobic* microeconomies based on the need for reparations for things that are *social* crimes but not actual crimes. but where money begins changing hands, does it really matter? not really, right? hence the popularity of bitcoin and things like this, cryptocurrencies totally unbound from even the *ghost* of the gold standard. it's a new world.

and all of this runs on the consumer economy, but we aren't even consuming products, we're consuming...feelings, moods, memes, performances, things opened up by new media technology, but as much of it reactive as active. a completely unbound deleuzian weirdness. or landian. but to my mind it's the sign of an enormous loneliness, also, and a serious question about what it means to be human. will smith even said this the other day: we are becoming *addicted to pain.* that's really fucked up, but it's true. pain attracts eyeballs.

and even if it does make money, it's a death-spin. so i think it's a good idea not to think of what actually moves the economy - psyche - in these nu-materialist ways, but as much more holistic and integrative processes. and in need of more than just reciprocity, but serious understanding.

>be anon
>receive cardboard box entitled 'the collective unconscious'
>no return address
>open it
>find pic rel
>turn crank
>hear this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9G0-4TWwew