Aldous Huxley would like a word.
"confiscated"
Submitted 2 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 2 months ago
yesman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Down-voting because it implies Sagan behaved like a cop.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 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 2 months ago
Sounds like Nietzsche is a lot like me. We both snorted stuff.
peteyestee@feddit.org 2 months ago
Is that supposed to be carl sagan?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
yes
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah and the other might be Albert Hoffman maybe?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
By the reference to cocaine it’s probably Freud.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 months ago
He apparently wrote an essay about it
Truly a man ahead of time.