The excitement in psychology when LSD was first introduced was like the excitement in the physics community when the atom was smashed. Everybody thought well now we'll understand mental illness, schizophrenia so forth and so on, and instead the government lost its nerve. It saw that these substances have the potential to deprogram people to institutional values. That was so terrifying, that all the promise for mental illness and creativity studies was sacrificed to institutional paranoia about the fact that these drugs might actually cause people to wake up to the abuses and scams being run by late modernism and capitalism.
All ideologies are the enemy of human freedom.
All ideologies are the enemy of human freedom.
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