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The people are the psychedelic molecules. It would be very difficult to create a symphony without people playing the instruments. Similarly, it would be very difficult to mimic a psychedelic trip without psychedelics playing the serotonin receptors. Yes and that right condition is with psychedelics. There is no other condition known at this time. Perhaps in the next 100 years a new method will be discovered to mimic the effects, yet currently there isn’t. For sure. We currently have very low resolution. We need all sorts of imaging to get a higher resolution and gain understanding from a neuroscience perspective. Yet there is a clear difference. Imagine having a crude image of an ant vs an elephant. Yes, we can get more information with higher resolution photography and different angles - yet even crude imaging reveals an obvious differences between an ant and elephant.

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Burger King goes Green

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Thats like saying if you have 100 musical instruments, you’ve got a musical Symphony. The pattern of how those instruments are played to produce a Symphony is extremely complex. Think about the trillions of movements coordinated together to create that Symphony. The neural activity of a psychedelic-induced trip is far more complex. Below is a crude map of brain activity sober (left) and psychedelic-induced (right). This is a super low resolution map. The actuality is far more complex, yet we don’t have high resolution maps yet. Even with a low resolution map, it’s obvious that neural activity on psychedelics is very different than without psychedelics. Currently, there is no way to mimic such patterns sober. As well, there are unique differences among people and trips. And there are past history, genetic and environmental inputs. All adding to the complexity.

An editing marvel. The ad has Green themes, yet some may say it is Orange NIKE corporatism pandering to Green.

Along those lines:

@Lyubov One dynamic I find interesting is how being canceled in one subculture can lead to elevation in others. Colin Kaepernick had an enormous platform as an NFL star, yet he got de-platformed by conservatives and has not played in the NFL since 2016. But he has appeared in Nike advertisements, been honored by the ACLU and Amnesty International and reached an agreement with the Walt Disney Co. for a series about his life. He has been resurrected as a cultural hero and has new platforms. From a profit perspective, the NFL would be wise to get him playing in the NFL again. Kaepernick jersey sales would shatter records.

Classic. This baby belongs in the Orange mega thread. It beautifully highlights Orange rationalization and distraction from the harms of corporate greed, corruption and plutocracy.

This is a Green Progressive describing how corporate plutocracy manipulates uneducated blue as useful idiots to rail against Green and profit. It is a parody of PragerU, yet he is clearly a progressive criticizing toxic capitalism. It’s a distraction so corporate plutocracy can continue devouring America. . .They have been doing this for many years. With an Covid-related economic collapse, perhaps more people will wake up.

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany just condemned Hong Kong for delaying their election. Can these people not see the blatant hypocrisy or do they just not care?

Yes. There is also the competition between regulators and corporations. Right now, it isn’t a fair fight. Corporations have far too much power and government regulators cannot compete in regulating them. This is obvious with things like the housing crisis and opioid crisis. In my POV, we need a much bigger government to be able to compete with corporations. Another example of this is with health care. Health insurance corporations want a “public option” that is “competitive”, yet it isn’t competitive. The health insurance companies will keep the low risk healthy people with the highest profit margin and unload all the older people and those with conditions onto the public option. Of course this isn’t an even playing field. The health insurance companies will appear to be the “winners”.

There is a spectrum of intensity. If it’s too intense, it can be traumatic and counter-productive. One reason I’m open to the original exercise is that it was a mild level of discomfort. In the area of animal farming, I think it would be more appropriate to take kids to a factory farm and let them observe the cruelty. This would be moderately uncomfortable, yet wouldn’t leave long-lasting traumatic harm.

@soos_mite_ah I consider there to be both negatives and positives to capitalism. Toxic capitalism includes things like lobbyists, extreme wealth inequality, the housing crisis, the opioid crisis etc. And during the Covid crisis, billionaires are getting massively wealthier while tens of millions of people lose their jobs and get evicted. Soon there will be millions of homeless people on one side of the street looking at millions of empty apartments and houses on the other side of the street. That is untenable. Yet are there some benefits of capitalism we could retain in a new system? I like the idea of increased reward based on skills and productivity. Offering increased financial incentive can be a motivating force to help people reach their potential. Yet within limits. I’m cool with millionaires, yet not cool with people hoarding 10s of billions of dollars. It’s too much concentrated wealth and power. I also like the aspect competition to speed up progress. Imagine there was a contest each year for the best clean energy discovery. There would be a major recognition and monetary prize. They would be internationally recognized and win millions of dollars. I consider that type of thing is healthy Orange.

These countries are capitalist / socialist hybrids. For example, they have private health care provides, yet a socialized single payer for health care. The U.S. is shifted much further toward capitalism due to privatized health insurance payers. This makes health care far less efficient and inferior.

Ime, a complete perspective would be One/Everything/Nothing/Infinity. Any perspective my human mind holds is incomplete.

Orange looking at Blue

? Same here.

Of course. Are you willing to observe how the perspective you hold is also incomplete? Transcending it requires letting go of pet junk and it will include pain. . .

Green calling out toxic Orange

How Blue views Green.

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