Bad ass responding anon.
kek
[ c8eb4a ]
>any interesting backstory to the disappearance of opium and absinth as (relatively) common drugs?
Definitely interesting thoughts.
First thoughts go to centralizing profits by corps producing more refined (proprietary) opiates. Opium is fairly easy for individuals to produce… Heroin and morphine, not so much.
Also most likely tied directly to Rockefeller monopolizing and commodifying western medicine. James corbett did an awesome vid about it a few years ago.
Not clue about Absinthe's story. Although people definitely still make it, homemade style.
[ ca0640 ]
"Hive mind" seems evil to this anon. Implies central control.
Collective consciousness, or something similar makes more sense. Like a massive central cloud of all thoughts, intimations, pasts, presents, futures and so on. Available to most all living beings to one extent or another at any given time…
/ramble
Perhaps that was a bit overstated.
"Hive mind" seems kind of like "consensus" rules or something like that. Puppets on strings, since consensus is easy to manipulate these days. Versus people being able to drink at will from the "global knowledge well" or something.
Hive mind I guess seems more 'programmed' and compliant than the idea of a massive central library of sorts with all knowledge.
Of course when many tap into the same shit at once, and catalyse changes of views and such, the synchronicity is amazing.