Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ...
by lazide on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:41AM
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For the same reason you’ll see articles talking about bar hopping, or glamorizing womanizing (less common now), or the latest celebrity shitshow, or travel to exotic locations.
People like escapism and excitement and feeling good in the moment.
People like to think they’re special and they’d never suffer the negative consequences.
And, truthfully - most of them do escape the negative consequences. Either by reading and not doing, or by doing and not being the problem cases, or by being lucky. How many/what proportion varies by the activity of course.
And so People click on it. And hence articles get read. And journalists write more articles, and the Overton window shifts.
Eventually, societal backlash occurs, or it becomes normal, or it gets boring and folks find something else novel to chase.
People like escapism and excitement and feeling good in the moment.
People like to think they’re special and they’d never suffer the negative consequences.
And, truthfully - most of them do escape the negative consequences. Either by reading and not doing, or by doing and not being the problem cases, or by being lucky. How many/what proportion varies by the activity of course.
And so People click on it. And hence articles get read. And journalists write more articles, and the Overton window shifts.
Eventually, societal backlash occurs, or it becomes normal, or it gets boring and folks find something else novel to chase.