Note: Written in response to Adam Mastroianni, "The Decline of Deviance." experimental-history.com. October 28, 2025. There's a strange thing happening: people are getting more similar. Teenagers drink less, fight less, have less sex. Crime rates have dropped by half in thirty years. People move less often. Movies are all sequels. Buildings all look the same. … Continue reading Why Everyone Seems So Normal Now (And Why That’s a Problem)
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America’s Modern Character: Paranoid Loser
"[Columbia professor Adam Tooze, writer of the definitive forensic analysis of the 2008 financial crisis in Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World,] does not buy the line that America is roaring back at the head of a resurgent West, even if the autocracies have suffered a crushing reverse over recent months. … Continue reading America’s Modern Character: Paranoid Loser
Is Now a Good Time to Trip on Psychedelics?
Vice.com asking the important questions. My initial reaction was, "Of course not." And, "No," appears to be the ultimate conclusion of the article. But, perhaps a more interesting question than it seems at first. "It’s sometimes said that a proper trip takes three days: one to prep (especially if you follow more severe protocols around … Continue reading Is Now a Good Time to Trip on Psychedelics?
The Power and Pitfalls of Adderall: Daring to Be Disinteresting
"Evolution is a nice, big idea. It connotes the glacial pace of an unmeditated act unfolding upon species, concepts, and ecosystems. It certainly doesn’t usually get branded as a feeling. But a couple months ago I felt this thing. Maybe a little like what a mommy feels when her fetus kicks the wall crossed with … Continue reading The Power and Pitfalls of Adderall: Daring to Be Disinteresting
Who the Fuck is SWIM?
"SWIM has done it all, from the most obscure pharmaceuticals to the hardest street drugs, at every dosage, in every combination. SWIM has shot black tar heroin in Thailand, drunk ayahuasca in Peru, binged on Quaaludes in Beverly Hills. SWIM has been to hell and back, cheated death, seen God. SWIM has survived hospital stays, … Continue reading Who the Fuck is SWIM?
Entheogen & The Black Iron Prison
[On reintegrating into their physical body after a transcendental, mystical experience with psychedelics:] "I was back in the prison of all the things that hold me back, but I could see the door was locked from the inside." —quoted in Ferriss, Tim. Tools of Titans. New York: Houghton Mufflin Harcourt, 2017.
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