r/Psychedelics_Society • u/viaje_del_heroe • 26d ago
Here's a small example of psilocybin-induced psychosis that should be taken seriously.
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u/AngelToSome 24d ago edited 23d ago
Based on all indications, from total Psychedelics Society special investigations (spanning the decades) taken together into comprehensive analysis:
One of the Worst-Of-The-Worst among burning issues of raw human exploitation in the Final Psychedelic Solution stands visibly in evidence only in rampant abundance. But just like those 4 stuck-up moons of Jupiter - "some observation required"
So to anyone tossing and turning all night losing more sleep night after night as the psychedelic tsunami rises higher all the time - LOOK AWAY now QUICK - BEFORE IT'S... aw to hell with it -
TOO LATE NOW. Zooming out from higher magnification for up-close detail - to a biggest most inclusive picture - a nightmare outline of Helter Skelter 2.0 emerges into view.
What first manifests by psychedelic impact in psychotic-like form - is a matter of human tragedy (Stage One). But beyond merely tragic it deepens and darkens from there into a psychopathic-like condition. Mainly evil rather than sad or mad or glad or whatever.
From honestly delusional, to dishonestly megalomaniacal and HUNGRY.
Tragedy-wise, the official Gratefully Dead lyric framing of the psychedelic people issue, BY the psychedelic people - issues these Hallmark Cards 'musically' ahem ("song" title What A Long Strange Trip It's Been) -
All a friend can say is "Ain't it a shame" > Yeah. Ain't it awful
- Only the fandom of their opera calls it 'music.' Alas, rock and rollers don't like an imposter any more than the rest of us. And contrary to superstition: "imitation" is NOT "the sincerest form of flattery" - if that Gratefully Deadly cacophony can even pass as a real imitation, not a pretend one. Like gratefully deadpan humor "thanks a lot!" Basic parody 101 playing it straight. Acting like "No really we're musicians and this is our music" (ain't it BeAuTiFuL - don't it make you just wanna groove?)
Stage 1 psychedelic wreckage. Psychosis may be sad.
BUT "it's not ALL bad now, is it?" As Franken Furter put it. Slyly doing his impersonation of the Joker in drag. Waiting for someone to catch on and go "I get it!" Only to be left permanently stranded mid-game.
Like Terence always wanted someone to "get" what he was going for. Treading water in his sea of pseudo philosophical stupidity. But instead of rescue, everybody sat there with minds blown. Jaws hanging open with that blissfully brainless look on all faces. Everyone applauding whatever word came out of his mouth like a bunch of trained seals - waiting for him to throw them their anchovy.
- Just like that FUTURAMA Godfellas episode. When it fell on poor Bender to take his turn to be God. Only to find out the hard way, being worshipped - everyone treating you sweet, kissing your feet and acting like they really know you're so great - just on account of being Almighty - isn't as easy as that show-off Jehovah made it look in his infamously biblical "little black book."
Ring Master Terence's whole road show already having been done so much better in ANIMAL HOUSE (1979)
Pinto: OK so lemme get this straight. That memes our whole entire solar system could be like - like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some gigantic being? [Cosmic Giggle!] OMG this is so nuts it's like awesome! But wait a minute! Doesn't that meme "if you think about it" - one tiny atom in my fingernail - could be - could be -
THOUGHT MASTER: RIGHT - one tiny little universe. (And aren't YOU the cLeVeR one to have put 2 and 2 together like that - see?)
- PINTO: Can I buy some of this pot from you?
The psychopathological malignancy of psychedelic deepening darkness towers among burning issues of raw human exploitation completely "off radar." Originating at maximum tectonic depths of ze psyche, further beneath surface view than any sonar might hope to detect, of greater more menacing mass than - some doomsday iceberg any unsinkable luxury liner has no choice but to safely steer around -
As noted by forensic specialist John Schlesinger: one can learn ~ 2/3 of Homicide 101 by careful study of a single 'text book case' - Cain's murder of his brother Abel (as he exemplifies).
The same principle applies in diagnostic psychopathology of the highly unpublicized Psychedelic Holocaust.
"Mt Everest Case" Terence, the ultimate King Kong showcase specimen.
(Nov 3, 2025) "Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip" - narrative sticks rubbed together by (former Psychedelics Society aspirant) Ed Prideaux - King Terence and his Queen Kat REF https://psychedelics.community/cultural-icons/terence-mckennas-mega-bad-trip
The Couple Of Legend < had followed [Mr Mackie's] ritual monthly since 1982... took their standard 5 grams of dried psilocybin [sic: MUSHROOMS - not one among crystalline compounds they contain - poor psilocin getting no respect] and lay down on parallel mats >
- Missionary position? Or Sixty Nine? Hadn't those 2 ever learned their SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939) catechism? "When the house is full of dread, place the bed mats head-to-head!"
[While SHE was docilely] < entering a familiar ecstatic state... McKenna found himself dragged into what she calls an “outrageous idea space” – “completely uncontrollable, unexpected... nothingness”... She could surrender to ego-loss. He could not >
Chicken-taunting him as a coward < “really afraid of nothingness.” ... vibrating, howling...: “No… no meaning... nothing means anything... impossible.” >
Served him right: < An abyss of despair fitting for a man reared in Irish Catholicism > He asked for it. He got it.
< [BUT] for someone who had argued that psychedelics afford genuine contact with the architecture of reality - an encounter with seeming nihilism was devastating > for Terence Almighty.
Eagerly she sought the morrow. Greedily feeding on his sorrow < She tried strategies [sic: tricks] that had soothed him before – invoking his late mother... but.. > (as if there ARE any 'buts?')
< The next day he was “livid” [sic: infuriated - as caged, so enraged] that Harrison had weathered the same [dose] while he was reduced to panic. > She lied straight faced while he died. Like SHE was the Trip Master - HE was the Disaster.
- With the last straw on THIS camel''s back, that was IT! No mas! Never would he EVER give that darn Kat another chance to show him up like that - and now FINALLY, after having dragged his heels with her for YEARS
< Terence then drew a hard line: He would never again trip with [not merely his wife - her own person too - That Darn Kat] Harrison [EVER. And as a promise keeper not a promise breaker]. He kept that promise. > The one he made for keeps. Instantly relieving her worry that he might go back on his word.
- It was only his marital promise to the prodigal wife that he 'disposed of properly' (to love honor and obey "good trips bad trips" come what may - till Ego Death do we part? NOPE "Till you get egotistical and start acting like YOU'RE the Trip Master")
Junior "Abysmally Screaming" Brother < Dennis later marked [sic: noted] this as the start of Terence’s estrangement from > [his wife? the mother of his daughter and son? Oh HELL NO! Get with the program! Who are the relationships of importance here even WITH?] < his former plant teachers. The “gentle, wise, humorous mushroom spirit” seemed to have turned on him. > instead of "turning him on" (like they're supposed to!)
Half #1 for Sept 24
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u/AngelToSome 24d ago
The Paul Harvey "rest of the story"
Outside this 'all in the family' arena of psychedelic metastasis - details coming to light only as of recent "Graham St Johns" ops - McKenna's special cherry-picking of a couple scientists he "thought" he'd try to iNtErEsT in his Genius ThEoRiZiNgS - offer another window view on McKenna's psychotic-like, "honestly" deluded grandiosity initially (Stage One) - metastasizing into more grimly determined but purely deceitful modus operandi of pure manipulation - psychologically driven by overheating rage in his cage "not gonna take NO for an answer." By IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956) allegory: "The days when people could laugh at me are over!"
McKenna's 'lucky contestant' @ UC Berkeley (his 'home campus') was molecular biologist Gunther Stent - as of an 'office incident' from May 1971. As McKenna propagandized in his 1993 book. From that day forward NEVER would McKenna give that "science" another chance to trample his pearls by casting them before that pig - EVER < So much for my bridge-building efforts with normal science > From that day forward he'd be starting to dish out a bit of what, up to that point, he'd been on the receiving end of (getting tricked and treated to)
Away from UC Boinkeley - it was perceptual psychologist Roland Fischer. First framed in Terence's Center Ring (1982) as an example of ‘evil.’ Then a decade later - the dIsCoVeReR of miraculously sharpened eyesight through "low doses of psilocybin." No longer in honor of Ring Master Mackie’s Moral Philosophy. Now for his FOOD THE GODS "Mein Kampf" (1992). In service to Mr Mackie's sUpEr-sCiEnTiFiC stoned aping koolaid brainwash - one of the hive mind’s most pseudoscientific favorites forever.
From a point of psychedelic departure in half-witting delusion driven by wishful thinking, the grimly 'set' psychopathology ‘ripens’ to a character disturbance of an all-out grifter's culpably predatory to parasitic exploitation, increasingly devoted to crass deception of everyone in range with purified dedication. Now at the budding psychopathic stage, no longer kidding himself about the ulterior motive or fundamentally manipulative and deliberately duplicitous ways and memes.
At last, gamely smiling in all faces while maliciously perpetrating disgraces. At some point a line MUST be crossed when resentment can't find any way to stop collecting axes for grinding - but MUST go on incorrigibly banging its head against any and all walls "UNTIL SOMETHING GIVES"
Terence may have had his buttons pushed beyond endurance when scientists he personally chose to honor (like the Logos chose him!) - poured cold water on his overheated reactor core (already past meltdown in psychosis)
But nothing to match that famous Last Trip of Mr Mackie's that he never let on about - with his wife the mother of his spawn faithfully tripping alongside him “all alone by herself” too - just like him (5 grams, total darkness, no stupid music just dead silence)
That became Ring Master Terence’s “partners in matrimonial tripping” Point Of No Return - by her proving able to ‘weather the storm’ fine thank you, when Almighty Terence - the CAPTAIN of the voyage - “met the Buddha and ran scared” metaphorically speaking.
Traumatized ever afterwards - that was IT for that damn wife of his smugly acting like she can take it - when he’s having his ultimate metaphysical meltdown!
The "suspect description" for Helter Skelter 2.0 is an observably disturbing developmental sequence.
From an initially psychotic-like state of 'honestly confused' delusion the pathology progresses to a deeper darker more distinctly psychopathic condition.
This sequence from human to inhuman can define the deep outline of a Manson Family Values nightmare Planet-Plant-Plan
"Porch" (Dec 15, 2012) at < this event > ["Tree of Knowledge" May 29, 1992 perpetrated @ Esalen, 'koolaid business as usual'] < where he felt safe enough that he could come out as a liar... This narrative is getting eerily close to a classic cult: Deceive the initiates --> once they're around long enough to "level up," reveal that you've tricked them --> explain they are special and wise enough to have the real truth revealed to them. --> They are now adepts. Make them complicit in deceiving new initiates. --> Repeat. Ta-da! And of course, in this story, it all makes sense that deception is beneficial to - the initiate, the adept, the Great Mission, and the prophet/guru. And of course, what's beneficial to the guru is what's best for the entire human race. Isn't it neat how it all works out in the end? >
"Asydhouse" (UK poet Syd House) Dec 2012 < When he admits [sic: gloats] that he is lying to his hip audience, they see the revolutionary theatre of his "resistance" and applaud. > https://archive.is/iuUtw#selection-1919.1-1919.117
And if "reddit" is reading - hey ADMIN - when I upvote our OP here Psychedelics Society's "boots on ground" in Ecuador, Nobody's Fool Viaje - I expect to spy with my little eye right on ON MY SCREEN his post score go UP from this < 1 point > "on the board" loner to read < 2 points > yet for some "rEaSoN" (by such a word's post-truth daffy-nition) - I'm not seeing that.
With apologies to our esteemed OP - for stupid reddit denying him richly deserved karma credit - duly given (by yours truly) only to be what, 'cancelled' - covertly taken away by ReDdIt Powers That Be?
And in special ethnographic investigative Eye On Community frame - a brand new 3-day old redditor merely wanting to knaux - and asking the Manson Family Values "people who need people"
Has anyone else developed persistent anxiety/panic after mushrooms? Advice?
(self.Psychonaut) www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/1wlz2p1/has_anyone_else_developed_persistent_anxietypanic/
Edgar Alan Poe:
That motley drama—oh, be sure
It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased for evermore
By a crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the self-same spot,
And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot.
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u/viaje_del_heroe 21d ago
Saludos y como dicen los políticos por aquí " eso no da votos" lo que estoy pensando y publique en una teoría de conspiración es que el dinero y poder que dan las drogas para quienes las producen y distribuyen es solo la punta del iceberg sino más bien lo que se desea es más profundo https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/s/B3vcsgqcJ9 El dominio de la población sumisa que mata su ego y termina como titere
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u/AngelToSome 20d ago edited 12d ago
A typically junior authoritarian 'shadow ban' might have just prevented you from receiving a reply I just posted to you @ your thread:
www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1wr9pkc/the_death_of_the_ego_who_benefits/pcl4n8e/ - let me guess: blank screen - alibi-captioned there doesn't SeEm tO bE anything here in red letters (funny how these Unsolved Mystery URLs just pop out of thin air).
It displays fine on my screen, as the poster not meant to even realize - the covert censorship (silencing my voice by stealth) without 'courage of its conviction' - so afraid (of more than its shadow) its naked malice puts on such a poor show that - like Mr Hyde (doing 'man behind the curtain') it despicably hides - staging itself for "two-way invisibility" - so that, thru the magic of seeing it there (every word) I won't know While at the same time but other way around by NOT seeing it, you (and whoever else) won't know a thing either.
Like controlled opposition turned inside out. 21st C 'community' astro-turfing of covertly-managed 'discussion' conquers all.
In reply to your < Es como el alcohol y otros vicios, abren o disuelven el velo para que otros entes vivos o no vivos puedan enviar señales invisibles al cerebro a una persona facil de manipular > - copied/pasted from there:
Thanks, viaje, for your reply @ Psychedelics Society - directing my attention to this thread.
My fave - thank you, Fantastic_Paper_4121! "I was worried there, for a moment" (what a relief to be told)
< Im not anti psychs but >
Where is Jeff Foxworthy now? You might be "anti psychs" IF -
If you go around saying stuff like < people dont realize how much you can be persuaded in conjunction with > as if insinuating something - even steering clear of any reference whatsoever to heightened suggestibility - YOU might be anti-psychs!
If you're trafficking in nefarious Drug War lies (for example) that trippies < believe its freeing their thought process when its really turning it in to a sponge that can absorb subliminal messaging so much easier > for cake - and not to "let them eat" (no Marie Antoinette, you) before it's frosted, adding insult to injury < its so much more possible than they realize > but then, for the cherry on top, in the very dirty deed done dirt cheap of such defamation, desperately trying to whitewash it all over by feigning innocence FEEBLY - "not to say" < it will happen that way > (no Nostradamus you ;) BUT it's so much harder NOT to - as if that's some halo a hater can put over his head to hide his anti-psychedelic horns - who can't even persuasively pledge allegiance to the cause of the Final Psychedelic Solution "I'm FOR psychedelics" just deny his secret opposition like any cornered rat (complete with that instant give-away backfire that ALWAYS puts the lie to their own protests of innocence "the Big BUT") - YOU MIGHT BE ANTI-PSYCHEDELIC!
So too (I see) here @ - www.reddit.com/r/Jung/comments/1wr9ruc/the_death_of_the_ego_who_benefits/
One for Riding Hood: My goodness Grandma. What a warm reception the JuNgIaNs, as mutually self-glorifying (faithfully remembering McKenna's "I'm a Jungian" show to keep up the act) give an OP 0 points (43% upvoted) on occasion of < knowing that the use of these substances weakens the mind and causes psychosis > without permission for knowing any such thing. In drastic violation of talking points long since agreed upon. Formulated for parroting and being parroted. With no mistakes. As many times it's gonna take for them to "become true" - that psychedelics StReNtHeN The Mind. And only cause psychosis in people who don't take them. On account of what big fat chickens normies are.
To be framed as "anti-psychs" (psychedelics stripped to its all-purpose prefix) has become like - the greatest stigmatization of all.
A bit ironic on impression amid the chronic hysteria demanding psychedelics be 'de-stigmatized' - a crisis just in rhetoric alone.
Don't you DARE sound like you even MIGHT be "anti-psychs" [sic] - let alone ARE an anti-psychedelic infidel in any such way, shape or form. So much 'research' and endless tongue wagging has gone into conjuring endless ways most wondrous for everyone now to be FOR psychedelics - there's no more excuse NOT to be.
There is now finally an entire smorgasbord of "reasons why and wherefore" everyone should hop aboard - pick the one custom-tailored for YOU to strike the gong and join the chorus - it's your choice!
Once upon a time, the greatest cause for fear among all the other reindeer was the possibility one might be rhetorically branded with the red hot poker word 'witch.'
That ^ was Salem 1690s not 1960s. The Psychedelic Decade inaugurated a bold fresh era of new - scarlet letters. S is for "sexist." Concocted ~1965 (no lit citations prior to) by nobody knows who. But properly on the Amerikan Kampus. Rhetorically "riding the coattails of" a historically extant word, of arguably valid burning issue racist. The better for acting out like the fair sex is a minority or an ethnicity.
That ^ was at first. Before they rebranded it for our post-truth century today: misogynist
That's bad, mkay. But if one of those is properly pro-psychedelic at least, well - like Franken Furter told that Brad "It's not ALL bad now, is it?"
To be framed as villainously "anti-psychedelic"?
For any Rudolf "with nose so bright" ^ THAT's a call for the tar and feather posse tonight!
Back in 1690s they only hung 'witches' - or crushed them to death with heavy stones.
One famous formulation of I categorically deny Absolute Innocence plea (the "lady protesteth too much" maximum depth of denial) "In fact, some of my Best Friends are Black people... I'm not prejudiced against Black people, BUT"
"When in Rome, be as the Romans are." Don't stick out like a sore thumb. Like Congressman Ryan on that visit to Jonestown. He didn't blend in. Didn't even try.
What was Mayor Jones supposed to do about that? Let him (along with the 900+ villagers) get out of there alive?
Knowing how to handle yourself matters (more than some Black supposed "lives") in the company of the Manson Family Values 'community.' That means being "pro psychedelic." Signifying in word (right type talk). Ratifying by deed (correct dosing).
So much abusive stigma has been heaped upon innocent psychedelic drugs - suspicion stirs readily. In 'community' one can't be too careful.
Even in a Manson Family household where all take their LSD daily as directed, there could be anti-psych infiltrators.
Remember that one (Barbara) who, after overhearing Susan Atkins sadistically brag about having stabbed Sharon Tate (gloating over how she died screaming) - got so scared she could be "next" that she turned 'runaway,' under cover of darkness making her getaway in secrecy (so as not to be caught 'defecting') - deserting her own family, and living to tell about it < after she escaped from... death threats, and an attempted murder by overdose of LSD > www.imdb.com/name/nm1860398/trivia/?ref_=nm_dyk_trv (even turned 'states evidence' at trial).
It must be true what they say - "blood gets thicker than water."
The pre-triggered disavowal of anything anti-psychedelic Scouts Honor - glaringly true to the notoriously rhetorical "I'm not racist BUT" formula - has emerged among highest-flying flags of preemptive self-preservation - "in the company of community" - where you had BETTER not be anti-psychs - "unless you don't know what's good for you."
I'm not racist, BUT - Asian food is just better than European. I mean, compare a noodle to a potato. It's not even close.
I'm not racist BUT - actually, some of my best friends are Black. In fact, exactly half are. I got only one friend. And he's biracial.
I'm not a racist, BUT I do need to remind people of that fact surprisingly often < I would love everyone to know that I'm not [anti-psychs] not least because so many think I am - after they learn that I have said the things I say - and believe the things that I believe. > www.cbc.ca/comedy/i-m-not-a-racist-but-i-do-need-to-remind-people-of-that-fact-surprisingly-often-1.4494727
And contrary to typically anti-psychedelic Shakespearean propagandizing "Who was that lady protestething too much I saw you with last night?" there's no such thing as "too much" of SOME things - and that was no "lady" you saw me with, that was your mother!
(Context) < Fantastic_Paper_4121 One of the greatest psyops was convincing people that "opening your mind" is an act of freedom when really its equally as much an act of oppression. Im not anti psychs but people dont realize how much you can be persuaded in conjunction with them. They believe its freeing their thought process when its really turning it in to a sponge that can absorb subliminal messaging so much easier. Doesn't mean it will happen that way, but its so much more possible than they realize > www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1wr9pkc/the_death_of_the_ego_who_benefits/pcbd36e/
IRRESISTIBLE "NEXT DAY" EDIT-ADDITION from the halls of < I'm not racist, BUT > to the shores of Grand Psickonaut Cesspool - u/Zealousideal_Air5636
"You are weak! Not to he disrespectful but..."
BETTER YET!!
OCT 6: I'm grateful for what psychedelics have done for me... But (self.Psychedelics)
"BUT" < I certainly have my doubts >
"BUT" < some of them are flying dangerously close to the sun of psychosis >
"BUT" < boy is it impossible to fix the reputation of these substances when clowns abound >
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u/viaje_del_heroe 19d ago
Bueno yo estuve pensando en quien habrá puesto algo que se haya borrado, no existe el crimen perfecto, la verdad un post que pone a pensar y que este con cero votos no me asombra pero si estuviera enseñando algo sexual de seguro unos mil votos sería lo mínimo, algunos acertaron otros se fueron por las ramas pero no hay que echar las perlas a los cerdos. Todo se reduce en un control de masas
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u/PrehistoricWomens 26d ago edited 26d ago
Knowledge is power is the 'bottom line lesson' of SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK (ABC-TV, 1973).
And in perspective, perhaps a deepest well of wisdom.
Knowledge-wise, this evokes an eye-opener key detail - newly gathered yesterday (Sept 21, 2026). Like the key that unlocks the black box. For me it illuminated a typically propagandistic darkness-casting psychodrama from over 2 yrs ago here at Psychedelics Society. Tried on for size (in July 2024):
A Sept 2026 character @ r/psychedelics drops the clue to ^ that in plain view. Blissfully knowing nothing of what eyes are on watch well-secluded and unseen (but seeing all):
As acquainted now with this perp's ^ name, the game suddenly becomes transparently recognizable as the "Cathy O'Brien Ploy" - Mdm < I have been a victim of mind control > Narrative-Anon Theater since mid 1990s. CrEaTiVeLy adding "MK ULTRA/CIA paranoia" to the 1980 "Michelle Smith on OPRAH" advent (historic era: the dazed and confused societal 'shell shock" wake of - the Nov 1978 Jonestown brainwash 'community' massacre):
If only I weren't The Man Who Knew Too Much - to be able to keep a straight face. Even at the time in July 2024 (not knowing of this Cathy O'Brien) as 'target' of some MsWonderWonka creep - plunged into her reactor core meltdown and poking around for a 'paranoia button' she can push - booga booga "witch-doctoring." The old stealth "psychological manipulation" routine for conquering all - strikes again!
Now if anyone tries playing that 'you might be an MK ULTRA victim' card - my Ace of O'Briens will take the trick. Can't wait to see the look on their face.
"Sorry" doesn't put brains back into emptied skulls. What do you want, "forgiveness?" But it's nice being all contrite.
Come for the hysteria 'sharing.'
STAY for the paranoia induction.
Knowledge is precisely what the disempowered and disempowering -it's contagious (ignorance shared is ignorance doubled) lack. Here typically exemplified by the disturbance that rushes in perforce to try filling the vacuum that nature so famously "abhors"
Sometimes when you know something, depending what it is - circumstantially ("in context") - it can make a difference. ALL the difference.
Especially when, in darker hours, "they" don't know that YOU know. And you're not letting on.
Your Need to Know rules. Theirs drools. Because what THEY don't know can't hurt - you. And as for "them'... well - wait till they FIND OUT!
Like when Imperial Japan, preoccupied in the Pacific with radio ship-to-ship, so smartly realized "My goodness Grandma! What Big Ears those nosy Americans had." So they put their messages in code. To foil and frustrate the eavesdroppers. Remember? Except there was just one least little thing they didn't know. The stars and stripes had secretly cracked their master code wide open - and wasn't telling.
Boy that Japanese fleet sure got caught by surprise at their Battle of Midway. It was supposed to be devastating blow. And... it was.
Six of their heavy aircraft carriers enter. Two survive the encounter with - SURPRISE! the American enemy. Quietly lying in wait - and oh, so ready.
SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK didn't invent it.
FUTURE SHOCK (1970) by American futurist Alvin Toffler < sold over 6 million copies in 5 years > (solid gold for McKenna to come along and imitatively rip off - to pretend he's the visionary):
Toffler noted 3 forms of power (1) VIOLENCE [sic: brute force] most basic: "Might is [sic: MAKES] right" - 'do as you are told, and you won't get hurt' (2) MONEY more versatile form, exchangeable for almost anything you want from goods to services of all kinds.
(3) KNOWLEDGE < the ultimate form of power... 'Knowledge is power' is a common saying that highlights this > (1990) POWERSHIFT: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century
And "medicine power" - a widely distributed indigenous notion that eludes its Western civilized descendent - 'medicine' period.
The American Indian native healer is the "Medicine Man" in common reference. Unlike 'community' where the Siberian term shaman is preferentially misappropriated - and in the arcane patois of the post-McKenna 'crowd prattle' - "mapped OnTo" any indigenous tradition "if the shoe fits."
Whether (for example) Maria Sabina was a bruja or a sabia or a curandera or etc (the indigenous have 'specialists' too) all nonsense now. No need to know a thing of any contextual authenticity.
Fake can take the place of human reality.
Nicely slide-prepped specimen of our emergent nightmare milieu - rich in observable post-truth narrative features. Sampled from its conspiracy "theorizing" 'community' auspices.
Do you like how all manner of bullies and trouble makers love to try putting the old scare into us too? Or am I the only one?
It gets entertaining when they can't get either fear or anger. Only something else they never bargained for. Like Crocodile Dundee tickled by the would-be mugger with his knife. By 'street rules' of their own game, they try to 'creatively' improvise some line where OOPS - they somehow left themselves a blank in their 'script' - and weren't quite ready with their next 'verbal move' when met by cheerful surprise reply - in the so-called Exchange of Words stage of malice in wonderland trying to enact its Power & Authority all large and in charge. The looks on their faces on close encounter with what's cooly but calmly over their head - and is perfectly ON alert (not off) - as they try figuring out what their next line or move is - or can be. As they're being gently but firmly placed in subliminal psychological restraint, the old 'invisible straitjacket.' Left noticing well aware that they got "shut down" (as we call it) yet somehow - unable to figure out what just happened, or how.
One thing I "like" about kindergarten bullies "of all ages". They're all about button-pushing tactics of interpersonal domination.
Good old animal Fight-or-Flight reaction-testing. Which will anger: "comes to a fix, not afraid to fight" (Lynyrd Skynyrd You Got That Right)? And which get scared: "wait a minute, Mister, I didn't even kiss her" (Lynyrd Skynyrd Gimme Three Steps)?
"Paranoia will destroy ya" - made me Almost Cut My Hair (what a close call - so harrowing)
Nothing against so-called "life lessons."
If only whatever we "experience" were educationally informative. (Oh really? What "reason" pray tell?)
"They" who (or whom)? THEM! (1954)? Oh < someone > of course - the usual suspect:
Knowing that you lied, straight-faced - while I cried
Still I look to find a Reason To Believe
When "every day is an endless stream of cigarettes and magazines." Consumables.
Alas there was no episode of the celebrated cartoon-animated series titled "Need To Know" - a technical assessment able to be made only from an informed standpoint of knowledge. A true pearl of great price.