This goes without saying, I can confirm that this person is very intelligent and has excellent taste:
Some thoughts [referring to my recent Free Press piece on marijuana]. My feeling is that you learn fast enough that I can throw words at you and it won’t be too forced. So I’m not really planning this. I am writing more now
1. Drugs are fun.
2. They open up new ways of seeing, sometimes by having a negative effect on other ways of seeing, especially by adjusting the response of attention, and especially by seeing sensory information (those experiences that are not sensory, ridiculous, I know, but here I really mean art primarily.
3. As the events that I have sufficiently arranged above have a great influence on people. to make an explanationDrugs can be too, of course.
4. Many people will not be successful in the economy as it is now as producers of goods or services, and many, if not most, will be economically viable only to the extent that they generate demand, and here I mean specifically pleasure seeking. Drugs are important in this social equation. People will use many more drugs for variety and quality. This train has left the stationor, rather, these trains have left their stations. You will never call them again.
5. People prefer not to work. Most people are lazy. As you know. Often people only work because they have to, and this is a constant source of human misery, part of being part of work. Rich people like to say things like: “work gives you purpose” but that’s actually work where you can create meaning for yourself. Most people don’t have this job, can’t get this job, and will never get a positive job description.
6. The other ways that people get meaning are becoming more expensive, and in a way that is forbidden to many, and here I mean it directly. children. It always baffles me why people like Musk and Thiel promote more production when it should be clear to all that (many) fewer people will be needed to produce (potentially) more economic jobs. Producing and raising young people is already more expensive than in previous generations, and fewer people are able to achieve the kind of economic security that predicts good parenting outcomes.
7. Tesla is to a company that makes cars like Netflix is to a company that sends you DVDs. He knows this, obviously, and has been putting AI into his cars. Tesla does robotshis cars are robots, and soon he will have many other types of robots. SpaceX will solve the electrical and cooling problems around AI quickly. What is important here is that all economic pressure points people who work less, not more. They will make more drugs.
8. This combination of pressures (man’s desire for rest and relaxation, reduced access to traditional ways of making meaning – through work, through children – and strong economic pressures to replace human work with AI and robots) and rapid economic development. the best drugs (my boyfriend knows as much about pot as I do about wine, and here in the PNW pot is at its best, and it’s literally getting better all the time – there’s a new nano-emulsified technology for live rosin potable products now available in Oregon, and let me tell you, that stuff is great) means that drug use will continue to rise, continue to evolve along with the number of other activities. combined with other uses of medicinal chemicals.
9. Mental health is health. Drugs help with anxiety and pleasure, that’s why people use them. Better drugs will help with this better.
10. I have an anxiety disorder (I don’t mind sharing this, and I have type 2 diabetes and I don’t mind sharing that) and, in my heart, bohemian libertine. As I get richer and richer, I use drugs to create space to separate myself from others. I create space for myself and my inner thoughts about drugs. My inner thinking space is often more interesting than others, however, and often more interesting than a conversation with every other few.
11. I play a great video game that makes me feel like a kid playing with legos, except I never clean my room. Marijuana enhances my video game experience by creating a sense of stasis while my mind wanders and engages other pieces of my mental engine in creation. Some of my best ideas, including many that have made clients millions of dollars, have come to me in this situation, and I don’t know another situation where I’m more open to new ideas. Most are dirty, but I’m making more money than I need to be.
12. I spend more money on classical music, theater, and other live arts than most people. I often use drugs to enhance the experience. Before the latter Bruckner 8I bought pot two blocks away from a store that sells it freely but illegally – this was in one of those districts with a world-class orchestra and outdated marijuana laws. Sitting in high chairs, high as a kite, I lost myself completely in the deep river of Bruckner’s cosmic meaning. What I mean is even what I love most would be improve drugs. Most reasonable people feel the same way, including Elon Musk.
13. I highly recommend taking marijuana while hiking Olympic National Park in the rain. You will never experience it sense of smell as well as in any other condition or state of mind.
14. Therefore, almost everyone already uses drugs almost all the timefinding a large number of them in private, public, artificial, natural, and experimental areas. You can’t replace that value, other competing types of value are more expensive or require higher levels of discipline (I get a lot of value from my personal trainer who helps me get high endorphins twice a week, now that’s BIG medicine, great clarity) and so on. I just don’t think there is a future where you will put this genie back in the bottle.
