Do shrooms make you smarter?

Don Jia - 2008-06-25 12:37:57

The good news here is that fundamental research into our favorite fungi can still expect to be funded, even in this day and age. This study would seem to affirm Terrence McKenna’s “stoned ape” theory, that those early humans who ate psilocybin mushrooms thereby gained a cognitive, and in the long run evolutionary, advantage over those who didn’t. McKenna attributes the development of man’s “higher,” e.g. symbolic, mental and creative, capacities to the inclusion of psychoactive plants in early homo sapiens’ diet. I always recommend ‘shrooms to people with an interest in linguistics, literature and philosophy, for their capacity to make tangible and concrete what is ordinarily abstract.

Now the bad news: this is all the more reason for the powers that be to ban the darn things. Let’s face it, intelligence – which isn’t the same as specialism - is not an asset in modern society, let alone a quality deemed desirable for many people to have. The powers that be – both of the state of the transglobal corporation – are presently waging an all out war against citizens’/consumers’ capacities to think for themselves. Make no mistake, my friends, their agenda is nothing less than the transformation of humanity at large into a throng of mindless automatons who can be reprogrammed and reconditioned as power sees fit. There are good reasons why nicotine, caffeine and alcohol are rarely even considered drugs in our present society. It is because these substances effect a diminishing of consciousness, and are little more than legal crank, the REAL opium of herd culture.

Bob - 2008-10-16 02:36:04

Spot on Don Jia

f.c.nicodemus - 2008-10-28 06:34:13

as a young adult I agree almost 100%, right on and stay heady