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Infinity wrote

I feel the same way about you on this topic. What if we are SUPPOSED to use our emotions? What if that's what we are SUPPOSED to do.

Capitalism is a backward patriarchic mess. Perhaps if we allowed the feminine energy to guide us like the nature we would prize our emotional states and use them as tools toward higher states of consciousness. Maybe this is good energy after all that serves as guidance.

Drugs aid capitalism and capitalistic gains.

I'm not sure what the difference between use and dependency is for drugs that we feel we need in order to be higher functioning creatures within capitalism.

I do however draw the line between drugs and medicines where I consider all psychedelics medicines because they enhance our senses vs mask them. Also, psychedelics do not allow people to become higher functioning creatures within a capitalistic maze like drugs have been proven to do.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

I think that talking about psychedelics as medicine does make sense, but that it's a completely different idea of what medicine is to the western biomedical model.

So far as the word 'supposed' - it's actually the word I'm least comfortable with in the quote I used. I don't really think that anybody is supposed to be anything or do anything, in way like the world makes sense or has overarching meaning. I don't know anything about that, and nothing has happened to me that has made me think that.
But I do think that our responses to the world are ours, that understanding them as inappropriate or abnormal is also imposing a set of rules about how things should be, and this I absolutely reject - I think that it's completely bound up in capitalist values, and so to live accordingly is probably more likely to reproduce capitalism.

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Infinity wrote

I think that I'm learning this also. Living accordingly turns us into robots. After a long time struggle with dependency, I'm finally tasting a little bit of freedom a year later. My dance with the devil made me a function better as a robot. Only in that way was it liberating.... but I lost myself. A self that I would have otherwise grown up loving if the "rules" were based on love vs capital. If it wasn't for capitalism, I would have never of been so desperate to go down that path in the first place.

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