“Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World”

Re:“Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World” by zwkrt on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:55PM (#24667414)

I don’t know if there is an industrialized society on the planet which can integrate these types of experiences. Capital and spirituality* do not mix; science and spirituality* do not mix.

*where “spirituality” is defined as knowing that your values and ethics come from some other place than your faculty for logical reasoning or from economic utility, however you choose to conceptualize that

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Re:“Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World” by sebmellen on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:08PM (#24667533)

I don't think that's necessarily true. Trade and exchange are just emergent properties of human experience. Every society has some form of it.

If we could infuse our current economy of capital with "psychedelic values", there's no reason it can't be integrated. Terence McKenna pointed out that capitalism is a novelty-expanding engine. If we can use capitalism as a tool to build better societies, why not?

The pipeline of logistics and labor that keeps us alive is amazing, and worth preserving. We just need to introduce a different method of thought.

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