What we need is a new hippie-like counterculture movement!

[Hestia]

10. What is interesting about the 1960s is the development of the Group Mind through the use of

LSD (Ecstasy does the same thing, which is why people like it so much). When you have 10,000 people tripping at the same time, it is very easy to develop a Group Mind (through the suppression of the conscious mind). As a result, culture was jump-started at an exponential rate that would never had happened as fast as it did. Is it a good thing - I don't know, as we are still fighting the same entrenched people, especially in the government today who hated those times and will do everything possible to keep people from coming together as they did then. Why do you think they shut down protests of any kind, hard, swiftly?

Could it happen again today? People are wholly different today as from back then. Violence wasn't entrenched like it is now. Education was truly liberal across the board, there were no diploma mills disguised as education. Greed is Good didn't exist then. Do you really want the 1% developing a Group Mind? That is what would happen, whatever it is, the drug or whatever would be taken away from the people and developed and marketed.

Then you have 3 generations of Just Say No kids who bought the bullshit about psychedelics and still believe that Ecstasy burns holes in your brain and "thousands" died of flying off balconies from dropping LSD. [sigh]

For every good, there is an ill. As the saying goes, Magic Comes at a Price.