Despair that Tires the World

[rain_gryphon]

So, things're gettin' real down in Burma. If we're going to intervene against the junta, then we'd damn well better send in the Marines, and quickly. If we're not going to overthrow them, then we need to shut up and support them. Standing off to one side waving our arms and tut-tutting about 'democracy' doesn't do a thing except to keep the rioters worked up and make the situation worse, and the government has already shown that they're willing to use as much force as it takes. We're going to end up driving the generals into China's orbit for their own survival, despite the fact that they've said plainly that they'd like to work with us, if only we were willing.

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Mister McGoofily fears no coronavirus!

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A full half-century ago, when I was a tiny little gryphlet, blasting people out of depression with a single heroic dose of DMT and/or LSD was the wave of the future. Now, after a half-century of breakthrough drugs largely notable for making sufferers go insane and kill themselves and/or others, we're back to psychedelics again.

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Comments

[moonhare]

I have a friend with major depression issues who self-medicates with drugs, including various hallucinogens. I can’t say it’s done much to improve his state of mind, but it’s not controlled therapy, per se. He seems to have that Sylvia Plath thing going.

When I was an impressionable young rabbit I smoked DMT-laced weed that my brother and his friend had bought. I never heard much about that drug before, or after, that.