Aside from sports which you mentioned, psychedelics and amphetamines especially are used by creatives. Writers, illustrators, directors, musicians and so on. Someone who would be "clean" would be at an ungodly disadvantage.
Although with altruism and psychedelics specifically, I would have to disagree strongly, as they actually tend to almost bestow empathy upon people who use them, that is to say that, the effect of increase in empathy is so strong that it seems as if people around and including the person who's had the experience are devoid of it by comparison. This increase in sensitivity if anything would in turn lend itself to altruism.
Non protestant, non Zionist Christians should find these YT links specifically useful, you can skip the wall of text.
I might get something wrong from the sources here, and by the way don't mean to negate the potential of the classical psychedelics, ineffable and larger than life as they present themselves in their first hand manifestation, but one can't pretend to live in a political and historical vacuum and hope to get away unscathed, much like not choosing is a still a choice. The sad thing is that this will simply be used as a vehicle to push a highly destructive political agenda.
If history is of any indication: once Illicit substances such as classical psychedelics and marijuana are pushed by the mainstream, you can be sure it won't be out of any heartfelt compassion, although this will be the rhetoric. But in attempt to create an apolitical docile population. This is nothing new, as seen in the opium wars, and continues to this day in a sense when underground lab chemists flip a molecule and off it goes to the west.
The Sadist Foucault's Death-Valley-LSD-experience-inspired "pact with the devil" (his words) ("If you give us unlimited sexual liberation, we won't criticize your economic system".) and the formation of the new left as defined him and by Freudian Marxist Wilhelm Reich, the father of sexual revolution, (tool of subversion throughout history which gained in popularity particularly by way of the degenerate "grandfather" of it Marquis de Sade) of the currently non existent (corrupted and subverted) Christian/Western culture, whose book was used as a weapon, thrown at police.
"Sade is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy against Christianity. He was a proponent of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion, or law. The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name." -Everipedia
People aren't aware to what degree the CIA has weaponized and used pornography, like Israel did to the Palestinians to make them turn inwards, useful stooges like Leary "tune in, turn on, drop out", to subvert Christian values and the organized political activism by the public in the form of anti war movements etc. such as the one which got subverted during the 60s.
This also delves into how it ties into the narcissistic, sexually transient start up culture of the day, "We're poor but we're sexy" lifestyle and "go to the gay disco and forget your problems" instead resisting to the abolition of decent wages and good jobs.
Crucially predictive and insightful is Yuri Bezmenov's lectures on political subversion and deception. The promotion of eastern philosophy and meditation along with the cultural revolution of the 60's as a way to make people turn inwards and tune out of the issues in society, particularly encroachment on their human rights, economic activity, and abuses of power in domestic and international, by means of misappropriating resources, sanctions and war. etc.
I don't think I'm "supposed" to give a response but I kinda did.
Well, hot dang. HN seems to be about sharing information and discussion, I merely did the former, also, an ideology is a belief system, religions are basically a set of values.
If you read the text you should see it's just snippets of facts (historical in nature, and yes those two people have their agendas for the interview as far as illumination and answering questions go you can get a sense of it from watching them, arguably nothing malicious whatsoever for the masses, quite the contrary.) mostly from the links with quotes. The links themselves are fact dense from experts in their fields. Writer/scholar/researcher, and KGB defector.
"Eugene Michael Jones is an American writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of Culture Wars magazine. Jones is known for his writings from a perspective which defends the Catholic Church in American society and overviews the decline of the Catholic communities which were assimilated into the secular American mainstream after the 1950s."
"Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Безме́нов; 1939 – 1993), known by the alias Tomas David Schuman, was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant who defected to Canada."
-W
I'd say the one who flagged the posts is the real problem, no idea what the hair up his ass was, problems with certain facts I guess. Looking at your posts, there seems to be a systematic problem with how the site works, wouldn't it be better if there wasn't this proclivity to censorship and knee-jerk flag/downvoting. It seems to lead to an echo-chamber effect. From whoever is arguing, this ideological battle thing though doesn't seem to have much of an argument regardless, 1-2/7 posts he would feebly at best as I don't see an argument, accuse me for it, weak stuff.
The point about how ideological "battle" destroying curiosity, I don't understand frankly, people interested in the truth wouldn't be hands off, rather they would engage, those who want to of course, when "ideologies" clash I think there's a "the axe sharpens the sword" effect and ultimately the more useful or truthful argument prevails, people with weak beliefs surely tend not to seek confrontation, not that I was or wasn't doing that.
Not sure If I get it, I'm not an ideologue in general, I'm not sure what that would even mean, everyone has ideals and values, changing as they may be, sure I have "I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things." But that doesn't say much, as surely the same applies to you and most people, ugh guess there's no escaping the echo chamber of acceptable ideas in this format, as long as it has centralized authorities. Subjectivity rules.
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