“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 gavinray on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:08PM (#24667526)

The first time I took psilocybin -- it had been a fairly low dose (~1.0g I think) and it kicked in during the middle of me trying to wire up a PS3 to an A/V Receiver box and a stereo system, and a TV.

And all of a sudden I felt strangely, and began to giggle, which turned into uncontrollable, uproarious laughter.

My partner asked me if I was okay, and I said:

"Absurd. It's all so ABSURD. Look at me, trying to put the 'right' wires into the 'right' holes on these boxes of metal and plastic. What the hell even ARE humans?"

I thought about our laws, borders, our giant pieces of metal we shuttle around on strips of asphalt we've poured, making sure to carefully follow all the Big Metal Box Driving regulations.

If you could take a step back from modern human life and look it "for the first time", like a child -- you would fall over laughing too.

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Re:“Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World” by bigyikes on Friday October 02, 2020 @07:27PM (#24668079)

> If you could take a step back from modern human life and look it "for the first time", like a child -- you would fall over laughing too.

Check out the comic Strange Planet, which has a silly, alien-based take on this. Human society really is absurd

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