13 barn owls in a trenchcoat5d ago

In my hippyish days, I used to believe, or at least hope, that expanding one's consciousness and opening the mind's eye could help most people be somehow better, you know?

So if there's one thing the tech bros have taught me, it's that it's possible to do drugs wrong.

Show threadBit_form

@HauntedOwlbear the Dark Enlightenment movement is fucking weird.

Every so often I'll stumble onto the philosophies of silicon valley and eveerytime I feel like I need to take a shower.

Apr 3 at 11:38amWeb
Show thread13 barn owls in a trenchcoat5d ago
@Bit_form Yeah, that whole Evola-descended fascist quasi-mysticism that Dugin and - less visibly esoteric but thematically all the way there - Yarvin promulgate are fundamentally bound up with a utopian vision that can exist only for the winners of an accellerationist race to the bottom, with social and environmental destruction as part of the fundamental game plan.
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK4d ago

@HauntedOwlbear @Bit_form

the behaviour of tech-bros / drug-bros (even at the lower levels) especially since the 2010s is why we are likely doomed to have /some/ level of prohibition for the foreseeable future

In my country they even fucked up a "legal" drugs market with new psychoactive substances the then government was initially turning a blind eye to, as folk couldn't self-regulate and put too much burden on the health/social care/emergency services when they overdid things (also too many people were driving under the influence which was causing carnage on the roads)