Gang Weed Conservatism V: Christian Angermayer, Killing an Arab by the Cure

Wish I could just wake up and it not be true. But it is, oh, it is.

There is a saying that one shouldn’t interrupt their enemies when they are making a mistake.

Right Wing thought leaders are pushing psychoactive drugs on their audiences, and our enemies aren’t stopping them.

So what exactly does the left think about all this?

Belén Fernández of al Jazeera is primarily concerned with the fact that Thiel and Musk are pushing drugs in a patriarchal white capitalist way instead of pushing drugs in a gay black communist way.

The globalised US brand of capitalism is predicated on egregious socioeconomic inequality and the tyranny of the rich – hardly an arrangement that discourages depression and anxiety. Poverty and other societal ailments are cast as a failure of the individual rather than of the system of racist patriarchy, which only permits the “success” of a privileged minority.

Now, however, the soulless rush to extract individual profit by distorting, commodifying, and patenting these ancient compounds is depression-inducing enough in itself – before we even get into the details.

The staff at AFRU, on the other hand, is concerned that the DMT elves are becoming racist.

But unfortunately, that’s not the experience many Black folks have reported. Black folks can’t even escape the scourge of systemic racism in the DMT realm.

One person reported that their first trip was good, but their second trip took a turn for the worst. “This time, instead of the sacred, I was greeted with the profane, and saw cartoons of racist caricatures mocking me. They were malevolent and it felt like I could die,” they reported. “As much as the first trip was welcoming and accepting, the second trip was pushing me away and I felt a strong sense of ‘NO.'”

“My friend said that the elves were making a machine and they turned around saw him and they said hey look the (n-word) is back,” another person reported.

If there’s one article you read in full after you finish with this piece, it should be the racist elves one.

Ellenhorn and Mugianis of The Guardian, however, have a more interesting objection.

Psychedelics can certainly increase openness – but this can be openness to Nazism, eco-fascism or UFO cults as well as to peace and love.

Psychedelics have the potential to help people break out of repetitive, destructive thoughts, to help them discover new possibilities and new joy. But the effects of psychoactive drugs can never be detached from their setting.

It’s foolish to imagine positive transformation achieved with the help of Rebekah Mercer, Steve Bannon or Greg Abbott.

And it’s naïve to expect psychedelics to change your mind for the better (in Michael Pollan’s formulation) when they’re a gift of the right wing, or when they’re offered within a framework of gross inequality. Look at Burning Man: this pseudo-utopia has become a playground of Silicon Valley’s ultra-rich. It leaves the desert strewn with thousands of abandoned bicycles and produces 12-hour traffic jams in the desert – which is hotter than ever thanks to our profligate burning of fossil fuels. With the wrong company, a journey of self-discovery can lead to even deeper solipsism. In fact, the illusion of transcendence can be used to justify greater selfishness, even cruelty.

First, I will emphasize that all such “transcendence” is illusory. It’s fake. It never happened. It’s a made up tale. It’s pure fabrication.

As far as they are concerned, psychedelics are supposed to help turn you into a peace and love anti-racist global citizen liberal. That’s what Timothy Leary and Terrence McKenna promised them back in the late sixties. And yet what they see is that these psychedelics seem to just reinterpret people’s worst impulses, because they’re being taken in the wrong environment. But what is the right environment? Why would anybody expect any different?

Well, one of the right environments is a laboratory environment, because there is a large body of research on psychedelics as a “cure” for authoritarianism. Bryan Pace, a Professor of Psychedelic Studies at Ohio State University, wrote in 2020 for Psymposia how:

In 2018, Dr. Robin Carhartt-Harris, et al., of Imperial College London published a study that presented data indicating that one side-effect of psilocybin therapy for Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD) was a statistically significant reduction in authoritarian attitudes. The exuberant press that followed trumpeted that magic mushrooms can fight fascism.

Let us take note that the last of those links is an article in BigThink, which, along with compact magazine, IM1776, and Palladium magazine, is funded by Peter Thiel.

Let us also take note that this is the same Dr. Robin Carhartt-Harris who gets his checks signed by Tim Ferris and whose study Russel Brand was waving around as proof that shrooms improve mental health.

Later:

It is worth revisiting these studies, however, because there are too many recent counter-examples to continue imagining that psychedelic drugs will transform individuals into trauma-free, progressive, anti-authoritarian citizens. Undoubtedly, psychedelics are powerful tools that have been neglected by society. But have the psychedelic cheerleaders overplayed their hand? To begin with the easiest of counterpoints: recently, ahead of a Virginia Second Amendment rally, members of the international neo-Nazi group, The Base, were arrested on weapons and drug charges, including allegedly attempting to “manufacture” DMT (dimethyltriptamine is typically extracted from plant material and smoked, causing short-lived, profound, waking-dream-like states). Then there is Atomwaffen Division, the white supremacist group which reveres Hitler and Charles Manson–all while producing ghoulish propaganda. This nihilist, occult-leaning group has been connected with several murders and seeks to acquire a dirty bomb. Members of Atomwaffen were convicted in 2019 on weapons charges and possession of cannabis, opium, and psilocybin mushrooms.

We’ll talk more about Atomwaffen next week. It’s a hell of a story.

But still, are there any people who stopped being Nazis because they took psychedelics? A highly informational article from The Forward makes the case.

Citing the research and experiences of Rachel Nuwer, we are told the story of “Brendan”, who led the Midwest branch of Identity Europa and attended the Charlottesville Rally of 2017. At the end of 2019, “activists at Chicago Antifascist Action had exposed Brendan's identity, and he had lost his job.” When Nuwer was conducting a study on the effects of MDMA on social touch for the University of Chicago, Brendan volunteered as a subject and had a life-changing revelation:

“Love is the most important thing, nothing matters without love.”

Dr. Nuwer was amazed. This raises “the possibility that this could be a ripe field of investigation. Can we use MDMA or other psychedelics as tools to de-radicalize people with extremist views, at least people who are somewhat open to it?”

We are then told of a very interesting institutional history of MDMA. It was first synthesized in 1911 by a chemist working for Merck, a company we discussed earlier in relation to Rick Perry. It was ignored for decades until its rediscovery by Alexander Shulgin, who Jewish Currents calls “the zeyde [grandfather] of psychedelics”.

According to Nuwer, Shulgin “had no idea how this new medicine produced such stunning results, all they knew was that it seemed to catalyze mental breakthroughs that normally would take months, years, or even a lifetime of traditional therapy to achieve.”

I think I can help settle the mystery of these inarticulate “mental breakthroughs” for Dr. Shulgin and Ms. Nuwer.

They were high.

Dr. Nuwer then asserts that “Israelis were among the largest underground distributors of Ecstasy in the world,” though the article does not provide any explanation for how this would have come to be. Obviously if it were true, it would be a good thing, Anthony, a real good thing.¹

Instead, we are reintroduced to an old character. Bemoaning the designation of MDMA as a Schedule I drug, Dr. Nuwer draws attention to the work being done by MAPS, who we discussed earlier as receiving donations from the Mercer Foundation to study the effects of psychedelics on soldiers.

Enter Rick Doblin, the activist founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. After being introduced to MDMA by one of its pioneering users, Dr. Stanslav Grof, Doblin, then a psychology undergraduate, began a multi-decade pathway toward FDA approval of MDMA research and use.²

Nuwer said Doblin, born into a Conservative Jewish family in Chicago, learned “oppressive rules are made to be broken” while delivering prayer books to Soviet Jews in the 1970s.

“What I learned from my parents is that there are big, big systems going on in the world, but you can make tiny individual differences,” said Doblin. “You can’t open up Judaism in Russia, but you can bring two prayer books.”

That MDMA’s history is so tied to Jews — Shulgin, Zeff, Grof, Doblin, and numerous others — makes sense when you understand the power of the drug, said Natalie Lyla Ginsberg, MAPS global impact officer.

“We have a lot of intergenerational trauma,” she told me, “and a lot of space to ask questions.”

Linking to Ecstatic Excavations: A Conversation on Jewish Psychedelia, we are introduced to Ginsberg’s work with researchers at Hebrew University to develop metrics for exploring MDMA’s use in conflict resolution between Palestinians and Israelis.

We’ll talk about that in just a second, but first, some last comments from Dr. Nuwer:

Intention, said Nuwer, is everything. Couples need to go into MDMA therapy looking to heal their relationship. Addicts need to want to kick their habits — in which case MDMA has proven to be far more effective than traditional therapies. Cult members need to be ready to leave their cults. 

And former white supremacists like Brendan need to be open to change.

Before taking part in the study, Brendan had already been outed as an extremist and had been fired from his job because of it. His family was no longer talking to him. He wanted a new life.

So I think we’ve found the second environment conducive to these liberalizing revelations: the environment of having your life completely upended after your racist views are revealed to your family and your employer.

Good to know!

Onto Dr. Ginsberg.

First, her resume:

Before joining MAPS in 2014, Natalie worked as a Policy Fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, where she helped legalize medical cannabis in her home state of New York, and worked to end New York’s race-based marijuana arrests. Natalie has also worked as a therapist at an alternative-sentencing court for prostitution and drug-related offenses, and as a middle school guidance counselor. At MAPS, Natalie works to disentangle science from political partisanship on Capitol Hill, at the United Nations, and beyond. She is also co-developing a psychedelic peace-building study with Imperial College, working with Palestinians and Israelis. Natalie is particularly inspired by the potential of psychedelics for healing systemic, intergenerational trauma, for building empathy and community, and for inspiring creative and innovative solutions.

As for her research, it can be read in full on the MAPS website. A response to it appeared in Psymposia.

The premise of the research is explained right there in the subtitle: “Early Reflections on Interviews with Palestinians and Israelis Drinking Ayahuasca Together”

The research was supervised by:

• Dr. Natalie Lyla Ginsberg (Global Impact Officer at MAPS)

• Dr. Rick Doblin (Founder and President of MAPS)

• Sami Awad, Executive Director and Founder of Holy Land Trust

• Dr. Leor Roseman (Postdoc, Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London)

• Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris (Head of the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Division of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London).

There’s Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris again! Deradicalizing the far right. Deradicalizing Palestinian Arabs. He’s interested in both!

What were the results?

Well, in Dr. Roseman’s presentation, his first example cited is that of a Palestinian man who converted from “a nationalist atheist” to a “pacifist Muslim.”

One Palestinian man cited in the article explained:

“My activism has changed tremendously…a big part of what I realized was how much this activism, and even non-violent activism, was motivated by hatred towards the other. And my activism as non-violence meant that I would expose them and I would amplify how terrible they are. So it was more of a demonizing non-violence motivated by hatred, not by love and compassion.”

Another Palestinian man is cited saying: “Focus on yourself, and make inner peace with yourself first, the peace starts within us. Each one will make the peace within himself. That is peace.”

One Palestinian woman described experiencing “moments of love and open-heartedness…there is no ‘you are Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian.’ Everything was stripped, all this nonsense was out, and only acceptance and love were present.” This fits well with the statement by another Palestinian man: “I cannot go to a checkpoint and be like, ‘I’m a human being let me go through. I’m a spiritual light being you know?’”

That last quote about the checkpoints and spiritual light is the opening quote of Ginsberg’s original publication of the study, by the way.

In his presentation, Roseman also discusses “the contradiction that might exist between mysticism and activism.” That is, he seems to believe, after doing this study, that being more religious makes you less politically active or effective. You might disagree, but he’s the doctor here, and I think it’s the thought that counts. We’ll come back to it.

In a response to the study, Dr. Sawsan Nur Eddin concludes:

“Perhaps more progress could be made by challenging these researchers’ problematic narratives that are woven with Palestinian voices yet exclude Palestinian agency from the premise and method of the study. By dumbing down a crucial conversation and distracting from the real work of justice, I suggest—on the basis of my analysis—that this trial risks functioning as an exercise in psychedelic lobotomy.”

An exercise in psychedelic lobotomy.

Who’s paying for this study, anyway?

As I mentioned before, MAPS received $1 Million from the Mercer Family Foundation in 2018, but that was to study psilocybin for shell-shocked soldiers.

And Dr. Harris gets his funding from Tim Ferris.

But the sole funder for MAPS’ Israel/Palestine Conflict Resolution study, to the tune of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, is a man named Christian Angermayer. Who is he?

Christian Angermayer is a serial entrepreneur and investor who builds and invests in companies shaping the Next Human Agenda: a future in which technology empowers people to live longer, healthier, and happier lives.

Christian is an active thought leader and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a member of the Milken Institute Young Leaders’ Circle, a partner of the Munich Security Conference, an advisor to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, and a founding member of President Macron’s “Scale-Up Europe” initiative. His Angermayer Policy and Innovation Forum convenes international heads of states, politicians, investors, and scientists to come together to discuss and address global priorities.

He’s also a board member at Blackrock Neurotech, which shouldn’t be directly confused with the investment firm. But the company is working on a brain implant to compete with Neurolink. Who’s a major investor, to the tune of $10M? Peter Thiel, of course.

Most importantly, Angermayer is the Founder and Chairman of ATAI Life Sciences.

ATAI Life Sciences, recall from earlier, is the “clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to transform the treatment of mental health disorders” owned in significant part by Peter Thiel, and also, alongside Thiel, is partial owner of Compass Pathways, a self described “a pioneer in psilocybin therapy for mental illness.”

The same think tank, the exact same one, which pioneers directly in research on psilocybin therapy for mental illnesses, also conducts “exercises in psychedelic lobotomy” on Palestinian Arabs, and they do it alongside a pair of doctors with a research interested in pharamaceutically pacifying the far right.

And they’re doing it with Peter Thiel’s money.

See, the liberals over at The Guardian and al-Jazeera don’t really get it. They hear about some of this research, read those mainstream articles, and they think that psychedelics are supposed to turn people into liberals. Psychedelics make you more open, less racist, less authoritarian. That’s what the science says.

Drugs don’t make you not racist.

Drugs don’t make you into a liberal.

Drugs make you do nothing.

For all of their talk about transcendence and metaphysicality, drug culture is nihilistic at its foundation.

According to Dr. Roseman’s presentation, the observed outcomes of DMT consumption include “Reduction or Transformation(!) of activism” and the “erasure of the definition of political identity.”

Drugs make you drop out of serious politics. They neutralize you, moving you away from a political mindset with clear grievances, concrete goals, and articulable plans for material success.

They got that Palestinian Arab talking about “making the peace within himself!”³

Instead, drugs move you towards a vague politics centered around raising “consciousness” and “awareness.”

Usually through more drugs.

It is political poison to the point that it would be better for any movement if its leader downed a cup of cyanide laced tea than a bowl of ayahuasca.

For all that you become more “social,” you become anti-organizational and anti-hierarchical. Even if you try to remain politically active, psychoactive drug use is an express trip towards the politics of DUDE WEED LMAO, turning you slowly into Russel Brand.⁴

Psychedelic drugs aren’t just depoliticizing because they retard your thoughts. You can do politics in the beer hall. They are fundamentally depoliticizing because doing psychedelic drugs puts you in your own world of total nonsense. It is inherently one of the most atomizing, solipsistic, anti-political things you can do.

And that’s not the worst of it.

Because drug culture is inherently nihilistic, focused entirely on warping your own perception of reality in order to change actual reality, it naturally jives with unhinged conspiracy theorizing. Once people in the right get into psychedelics, whether because they are literally taking it or because they’re just encouraging others, they start pushing some of the most r-slurred beliefs imaginable.

Let’s start with Alex Jones.

Consider this clip of Alex Jones from October 1997, talking about black helicopters and police surveillance.

“Yeah, the Austin Police Department’s, last time I heard, has 20 units with infrared. If you have enough of a hgeat source in your house, it’ll pick up the heat source and show a signature. It’s called FLIR. It’s infrared, or heat signature. And we didn’t play all of the cut from The Lehrer NewsHour, but it says, yes, black helicopters are being used for surveillance of the public by sheriffs departments and police department around the country. So that’s real, and I’m gonna play that tomorrow night…”

Not only is Forward Looking Infra-Red a very real technology that works exactly as Alex Jones describes it, by firing a laser beam into your house to image based on heat sources, the Supreme court wouldn’t rule on the constitutionality of its use by police departments for another four years. And how were police and sheriffs departments getting their hands on this stuff? Easy. Through the 1033 Program, which began in 1990 and allowed the DoD to transfer its surplus equipment to law enforcement agencies.

Originally, it was “only” to be used for anti-drug activities, and that Supreme Court case happened because police launched a search because the high levels of heat coming off of a man’s house led them to believe (correctly) that he was growing marijuana. But in September 1997, a month before that Alex Jones clip, that year’s National Defense Authorization Act expanded allowable use to counter-terrorism and beyond.⁵

Today, The Rational National looks back at a 1995 clip of Alex Jones and asks: “Here you have somebody who is making sense, who is doing real journalism, pointing out the hypocrisy of one of these lawmakers, and is, dare I say, a good looking guy. What happened? Obviously that isn’t the current Alex Jones, I have no idea what turned him into what he is today.”

I can’t say for sure, either.

Anyway, here’s a clip of Alex Jones on the Joe Rogan experience explaining how the government has a team of intelligence agents who take ayahuasca in order to engage in diplomacy with aliens from another galaxy.

“A reduction or transformation of activism” indeed.

He’s not the only one who believes this, either. The CNN correspondent and Pro-Biden activist Richard Spencer is co-founder of the AltRight Corporation along with Daniel Friberg and Jason Jorjani.

Jason Jorjani spends much of his time trying to convince the far right to support regime change in Iran. He calls the collapse of the Sasanian Persian Empire to be the first and greatest White Genocide. He also claims that Islamic Republic is supressing a pre-Arab, pre-Mongol, pre-Turkic, Aryan-Zoroastrian constitutency in the country that could take power if only the Mullah's were out of the way.

Jason Reza Jorjani also believes that reptilians are doing DMT to get to the higher reference levels of the matrix.

Also consider Mike Cernovich. Back in 2014, Cernovich came onto the scene with Gamergate, along with the likes of Milo Yiannopolous. If you don’t know what Gamergate is, then congratulations, I envy you. If you do know what Gamergate is, Cerno was the one who hired the investigators to look into Zoe Quinn, and was the primary point of contact for her ex boyfriend, Eron Gjoni.

Cernovich was also responsible for getting Sam Seder fired from his job at MSNBC for tweeting some jokes about Roman Polanski years earlier, and in a fascinating, man-bites-dog story, went after Seder’s advertisers and almost got his show shut down. He also got James Gunn fired by Disney for, same as before, tweeting jokes in the past about pedophilia and rape. I won’t dwell here on the ethics or possible hypocrisy that may be at play here. What’s important for this analysis is that Cerno was a man of initiative. He got things done.

He really owned the libs.

Well, in 2018, Cernovich got into psychedelics. Take note of the last tweet screencapped in that thread.

Actually, Mike, mass movements are not caused by energy or animal spirits, they are actually caused by deliberate acts of human will, human action, human design, and human organization. Mass movements involve people making a deliberate choice to organize themselves on a political basis. They don’t just happen as the result of a change in popular mindset, much less “energy or animal spirits”. That’s precisely the kind of dumb crap people start saying when they start doing psychedelic drugs.

Sure enough, Cerno spends his time now pushing his audience to try magic mushrooms and ayahuasca. In the proper environment, of course.

When I had seen that Murphy returned from a retreat claiming he was God, every alarm went off.

Immediately I knew that Murphy entered the retreat setting with the wrong state of mind, and without proper guidance and integration. No responsible shaman would let someone leave in the condition Murphy was in.

It appears Murphy went to an ayahuasca retreat without taking the necessary shamanic-recommended preparations.

Ayahuasca is central to a spiritual practice and also reveals Jungian archetypes within.

Ayahuasca reveals the shadow – that part of yourself that isn’t fully integrated into a higher self. The anger, which can be fuel when used as passion, but also can be self-destructive and lead you to be manipulated into conflicts, drama, and gossip. The fear, which keeps us also but also holds us back from taking adventurous risks. The power, which we can use to heal the world and so often use to harm others who “deserve” it as we see the world in an Us v Them paradigm.

You must approach ayahuasca with respect and a pure divine intent, and even then, you may have the worst night of your life.

Connor Murphy will make a full recovery if he receives proper treatment from a professional who understands shamanic practices and psychological integration.

“A reduction or transformation of activism.”

Roosh V, too. For those who don’t know, Roosh was a Pick Up Artist who runs the website Return of Kings. As early as 2012, Roosh was getting called out by the SPLC. In 2016, Roosh politicized, preaching the gospel of Trump to his audience of (predominantly non-white) men, and wrote a book called Free Speech isn’t Free.

Roosh has a very interesting story to tell us about Psilocybin.

In 2014, during his pure PUA days, he met a british sexpat in Poland.

In March of 2018, his sister died.

In October 2018, he was debanked. PayPal and Stripe and other financial services cut off support for his site, because that’s a thing that happened and continues to happen and will continue to happen.

Christrmas 2018, he returned to Poland to stay for six weeks, presumably to take his mind off of his troubles by having lots of sex with Polish girls. Certainly there are worse ways to cope.

Case in point: At the end of the six week visit, all of the sex he was having wasn’t doing it for him. He prayed to God to give him guidance. It’s unclear what, if anything, God told him, but either way, Roosh, then asks the British sexpat friend to let him try mushrooms for the first time in his life.

Because of his experiences, a month later in March 2019 he returned to the Armenian Apostolic Church. In May 2021 he got baptized Ortho.

Roosh doesn’t really “do” politics anymore.

“The God pill does feel like the final destination, where life becomes about asking Him for help and performing His will in a way that embraces good,”

Jordan Peterson didn’t stop becoming right wing either, to the extent that he ever really was. But he used to speak about self actualization and hierarchy and gender roles and such in a way that really did seem to help a lot of disaffected young men. Now he works for Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire.⁶

There are plenty of other reasons why doing drugs is fundamentally depoliticizing.

Drug users are inherently untrustworthy.

Just to remind everyone: doing psychedelic drugs is illegal. Making a habit of doing illegal drugs is an easy way to attract law enforcement attention in a country where everybody commits three felonies a day. You become a danger to any organization that you join. Even if you’re able to self regulate, the only people who will join an organization with people like you are people with poor judgement or an inability to assess or manage risk.

Beyond that, everything you say and do is colored by the fact that you regularly take trips from reality.

Would America’s “right wing” thought leaders do this on purpose? Of course they would! All of the people we’ve discussed these past few weeks, even if they dabble in edgy comedy and so-called neoreactionary thought, hate and fear the idea of a true right wing! You don’t have to take my word for it. Take theirs!

Here is a video of (Thiel-owned) Palantir’s CEO, Alex Carp, being interviewed in Davos⁷ where he boasts: "We built PG which single-handedly stopped the rise of the far-Right in Europe."

As far as they are concerned, if you are white, on the right, and not a fanatic libertarian, you are a charming public speech away from storming the Capitol, building the wall, and shutting down their house parties. You have to be managed somehow. You can discuss taboo topics with them, but you have to keep it funny.

This is the other reason why they are so focused on getting vets onto this garbage. Veterans have a demonstrable willingness and ability to engage in organized violence. These people have willpower, agency, and income. Twenty years of the incredibly fake and stupid terror war has made an entire generation of returning vets more skeptical of the US regime than any time since Shay’s rebellion. There’s a long history of veterancy and nationalism.⁸ For now, they are mainly white men. So they are dangerous, and they need to be pacified. Free college and easy mortgage loans are nice. But if that doesn’t get their buy in, then apparently we’re not opposed to ketamine.

The elites face a problem: the popular right has broken from Frank Meyer’s fusionism. For years, its hegemonic control over the rightward bound of the American Overton window ensured that America got just enough libertarianism to cut taxes for the rich and put COVID-relief money behind an iron wall of means-testing and “payroll protection." At the same time, it excused corporate bailouts as an acceptable abandonment of free-market principles, and multibillion-dollar wars to bring opiate drugs, war crimes, and child rape to the Middle East, all in the name of the free market system.

Trump has revealed and confirmed that it is very popular to oppose free trade, immigration, and foreign war. He’s also revealed and confirmed that America’s elite will move Heaven and Earth not to deliver on that unfathomably popular demand.

One solution for them is to make the populist right untenably stupid, pumping their information environment full of nonsense about the matrix and reptiles and Bill Gates. After their fifty-year grift accidentally cashed out with the successful repeal of Roe V. Wade, the right had to balance the scales and turn their victory into defeat by promulgating a theory of American politics that didn’t revolve around human action and human design, but instead around a spiritual war between angels and demons. These are people who think that the Battle of Endor was decided by Darth Vader’s turn to the Light Side of the Force, rather than the Rebel Navy’s destruction of the Second Death Star’s reactor core.⁹

These people want conservatives, and anybody who might become conservative, to blame their problems on demons instead of doing real politics. The entire point of the Q-Anon psyop was to completely neutralize any potential backlash from the Republican base as Trump turned his back on every single promise he ever made. These people sat back and “trusted the plan” and got nothing to show for it.

You cannot defeat people who are grounded in reality by talking about reptiles. If you’re not engaging with reality, you will be defeated by people who are engaged with it slightly more than you are. And it says a lot that the only way for the right to lose that contest is to push them to do acid.

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1. Or is it that if I think it’s a good thing, it becomes true? Celebration Parallax can be very confusing.

2. Notice another psych professor introducing his students to psychedelic drugs.

3. I am reminded of an excerpt written by the late Rabbi Meir David Kahane in his book, Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews. He writes:

“Because they desperately fear to look at the reality of Arab hostility, the two-legged lemmings of the Mosaic faith proclaim that the root of the Jewish-Arab problem is, firstly, a lack of social and economic equality, but even more important, because there is no contact between Jews and Arabs, there is a "lack of understanding." A lack of understanding. We must, therefore, rush to break down "stereotyping, fear and suspicion," as Arabs and Jews work together, play together, create together. And so the liberal vision of happy and equal Jews and Arabs spending summers together in a camp, visiting each other's homes, laughing at each other's jokes in a cafe. Break down the barriers and peace and tranquility will reign as we put an end to the "lack of understanding."

“If I were an Arab I would fairly shake the walls with my disgust and anger. This is the problem and this the solution? The fact that Jews and Arabs do not "understand" each other? That there is no social contact?

“The truth is that the Arab understands the Jew and the State of Israel very well. And that is precisely what makes him hate it and oppose it. The Arab understands very well that his ultimate complaint, anger and inability to accept the State of Israel is the fact that it is a Jewish State and is so defined officially in the Declaration of Independence. The Arab knows all too well that there exists in Israel the basic Law of Return that grants automatic citizenship to Jews and not to Arabs. The Arab knows that everything about the state —its anthem, its heroes, its language, its religion, its aspirations — is all Jewish, and he is not. The Arab has nothing but contempt for the liberal who holds him in such contempt by thinking that all the Arab wants is equal economic conditions and social intercourse. No, one does not buy an Arab's national pride with an indoor toilet or a summer camp. And if all the liberal Jews had a trace of the national pride that the Arabs possess, they would understand that not by bread alone does the Arab live. They would understand that the Arab understands the Jew precisely and they would realize that what bothers the Arab is Zionism, per se; the existence of a Jewish State that, by definition, makes him less than equal.”

One could only imagine what Rabbi Kahane would have said if you told him about the Ayahuasca Plan.

4. From the same Russel Brand video we discussed last week:

We are on, with revelations like the UFO stuff coming out from the pentagon and this kind of thing entering the mainstream debate, we’re at a kind of pivotal moment where we could say: “why don’t we put these new revelations into the current machine that materializes, rationalizes, commodifies everything” or we could, in this time of crisis after this time of hibernation, lockdown, breakdown, start looking at genuine alternatives, new ways of treating individuals, new ways of treating the collective.

An except from a 1960s newscast: “After receiving a small dose of LSD, they’re confused and undisciplined.”

“After receiving a small dose of LSD, they’re beginning to question whether or not being in the army was a good choice for them as individuals.” Other attitudes that might alter are your willingness to cooperate with systems that don’t directly benefit you, and perhaps have never been intended to directly benefit you. More likely, to subjugate and control you. So whilst I’m not endorsing the recreational use of any substances, and for me as a man in recovery, for me all mind altering substances are off the agenda. One day at a time, permanently, I can see that there is a huge need not only with regard to mental health, but with our perception generally, for change, a change of perception, a change in the way we see reality.

Note even there, Russel gives away the problem. People who do psychedelic drugs are more difficult to organize into effective political action. Do you think the DoD decided that a drug which makes soldiers undisciplined was completely useless? Discipline for me, not for thee!

5. Speaking of counter-terrorism, here’s a clip of Alex Jones on September 12, 2001, talking about when Some People Did Some Things.

6. If you want to see something really funny, watch this exchange that Jordan Peterson has with a Muslim, starting at the 1:01:40 mark. Simply put, Jordan Peterson becomes an unintelligible postmodernist whenever you ask him about God. Also notice that he brings up John Vervaeke, who we talked about last week.

7. Why was he in Davos? Naturally, he was in Davos to attend a meeting of the World Economic Forum.

8. An example off the top of my head? Hitler.

9. It’s actually worse, since in the context of Star Wars, “Sith vs Jedi” actually is a relevant axis of political analysis. Palpatine actually is an avowed Dark Lord of the Sith, it actually does motivate his politics, and you can make predictions on his decisionmaking based on him being a Sith Lord. Luke was able to to use “Palpatine is a Sith who likes to corrupt Jedi” to his advantage by surrendering himself to Darth Vader to be brought before the Emperor. This took the Empire’s strongest soldier off-planet, giving Leia and Han more freedom of action. Demons, because they aren’t real, do not exercise influence over politics, and you cannot make correspondingly valid predictions.