We have recently read some medical-chemical articles on the use and dynamic effect of the ingestion of so-called “magic mushrooms.” As reported, partaking in such exotic fungi produces certain desired effects such as the visual mobility of inanimate objects, intensity of color, and the experience of an enhanced heartbeat. We have been puzzled as to the dubious aspiration of users to thus distort reality. It is our theme that the phenomenon of distortion, notably, exists in today’s political scenario without the prerequisite administration of psychedelic chemistry
We have, on personal principle elected to not comment on the nuance of individual taste in experiencing “pleasure,” inclusive of such aspirations for altered reality; ye, we have empirically noted that recent developments in the Nation render such questionably desirable distortions readily available at no charge and without chemical concomitant except that of the resultant “heartburn.” In sum, our observation is that “Golden Mushrooms, LSD, and other expensive and possibly hazardous, mind-altering stimulants are an unnecessary precursor to the experiences of mind-bending distortions of normalcy, daily reported, the Nation’s media.
Millions of voters, constituting as much as nearly 50% of the Nation, elected to the office of the President of the United States, considered the avatar of liberty and individual rights, Donald J. Trump, an individual totally lacking a moral compass nor a scintilla of requisite capability. with a record of numerous felony indictments and 34 convictions, including treasonous purloining of secret government documents, an admirer and friend of Russia’s Putin and other autocratic leaders of our enemy countries, undemocratic election denier and sponsor of National insurrection, perpetrator of election fraud, promoter of militant White Christian Nationalism, a lifelong misogynist, and adjudicated rapist, the perpetrator of extensive tax fraud, surreal violater of the Constitution’s Emolument Clause, a crass and shamefully inappropriate embarrassing retail hawker of glitzy merchandise to the American public, an adjudged defamer, and a miscreant who has publically declared his intention to set aside the American Constitution and rule as an autocratic dictator; wreaking vengeance against all of his political opponents. Who needs golden mushrooms?
Such phantasmagorically distorted, shockingly elected American Chief Executive has likewise proposed as his Official Cabinet nightmarish, hallucinatory, and bizarre choices of unreal and caricatured figures whose respective personas are appropriate for inclusion in, the cast of Lewis Carroll’s, Alice In Wonderland” or more visually, creatures in a Roku horror movie. He selected a sexual predator, sex market trader, and drug addict for America’s Attorney General, a spokeswoman for Putin, and friend of (the now deposed) Syrian pathological tyrant, Asad, as chief of American Intelligence, a conspiracy delusional opponent of vaccination, who deposited a dead bear in New York’s Central Park and boasts a worm in his brain, as the Nation’s top health authority, a Secretary of Defense, a known alcoholic, tattooed White Supremacist who is opposed to women in the military, an Immigration Secretary who has stated his intention to deport millions of immigrant families and a veritable psychedelic quilt of similarly incapable and principally unfit nominees. We repeat the previous question as to the practical need for chemical catalysts for psychedelic dissimulation of normal reality?
The ubiquitous opium den is sadly, not limited to Mar-A-Largo and the sycophantic MAGA lemmings. The context of contemporary university education, student protests, atavistic prejudice, including an epidemic size reprise of the toxic disease of antisemetism, gender prejudice, interference with women’s natural authority over their own body, derision of the humanistic welcome symbolized by the Statue of Liberty, suicidal opposition to ameliorative policies regarding global warming, fascistic censorship, the emotionally unhealthy results of smartphone insularity and loneliness in place of salubrious human interaction, the fateful decline of liberal scholarship in favor of short term goals, the effective emasculation of representative democracy by the legally, unlimited franchise of political donations, the irresponsible despoilation of the natural environment; we could, unhappily, go on ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
Rational good sense and the salubrious standards for societal and individual interaction have been distorted beyond any recognizable image of empirical normality, resulting in a surfeit of distorted reality regarding which, no employment of Golden Mushrooms or other chemistry is empirically, comparable or necessary.
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