Aldous Huxley would like a word.
"confiscated"
Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dujs/2013/11/07/interdisciplinary-studies-mind-altering-substances/
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Diddlydee@feddit.uk 10 months ago
yesman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Down-voting because it implies Sagan behaved like a cop.
Dasus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sagan took acid and shrooms, Nietzsche used coke.
Cocaine is purely dopaminergic, which makes you energetic, but emotionally “cold” compared to serotonin.
Just switch Nietzsche to Terence McKenna and then the meme is correct.
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 10 months ago
Sounds like Nietzsche is a lot like me. We both snorted stuff.
peteyestee@feddit.org 10 months ago
Is that supposed to be carl sagan?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
yes
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah and the other might be Albert Hoffman maybe?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 months ago
By the reference to cocaine it’s probably Freud.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 10 months ago
He apparently wrote an essay about it
Truly a man ahead of time.