I got bored and as S&P is my most favourite category on GC I thought I'd share some of my thoughts with you all... There was no need for war, crime, punishment or suffering in the collective consciousness. It was a bitter opaque backdrop for those most enthused with the American nightmare to fully exalt their deepest and darkest desires. Those most blissfully unaware, who somehow managed to maintain (despite a grand feast of national poisoning programmes) a working ego managed to climb to the top of the funeral pyre and piss all over those who had been sold a mere husk of reality. Of course many acidheads with good intentions climbed to the top of corporate structures alongside these maniacs, but the mere act symbolised a departure from roots to an arrival at the new. You cannot blame people for not wanting to give up their materialism given that their hard work is what has brought them to the crest of the wave, their enthusiasm preferable to the froth at their mouths that one encounters in a separate reality where they are deemed by the culture as failures. So far, so far very predictable as it has become fashionable in the 21st century to somehow decry the evil and suffering in the world without really coming up with many positive solutions. It is not those who complain who actually change the world; the grand irony being that those who claim oh so strenuously that they are not sheep are in fact, sheep. In times of war they rapidly transform into lambs to the slaughter: quickly and furiously turned from peace-time graduates of whippets into agents of death whipped into place by state apparatus. Democracy was always a misnomer anyway. In what upside-down world was a political system that was designed in an age of widespread ignorance with a marked lack of readiness and availability of information going to be fit for purpose today? Instead politics has become a gravy-train laden with spoils for those in power, the funny thing about power of course, being that it only appears to those who seek it. A conjecture at this point is required, before you start getting enraged in your peculiar middle-class manner: people expect too much of politics. The primary job of politics is not to make society better. Unless you want an extension of a nanny state which attempts to look after individuals who are unwilling yet capable to help themselves; thus ensuring that politics continues to play a central role in turning the key of corruption. Rather it is in the first instance the job of politics to ensure the smooth running of the mechanics of society and to ensure this is done effectively. If in the process of this society as a whole is bettered, then wonderful! But how can politics emerge from the mire as the champion of the people if it is being held down by the left-right debate of Social Democratic nonsense that is in reality a thinly veiled play into the hands of supra-national corporations and bankers. Out of individual responsibility will come a transporting collective paradigm shift. At this point there must be some focus, because all too often free-thinking individuals start to attack the mainstream culture deploring it as uncouth, stupid and so on. All such perspective brings to the table is the admission of the author's own bitter experiences (or lack of) with normal people. There is no such thing as normal, and people have different quirks and personalities; if they do not use their material wealth in such a way that does not appeal to you, then so be it. There is no need to judge people based on outward appearances anyway; what is important is how far they have personally developed their consciousness. Historically and very broadly speaking the West develops this through use of various substances en masse and the East develops this through meditation and so on. This is why the recent phenomenon of designer drugs, legal research chemicals, is a particularly important moment in the early 21st century. The further you walk from your house the more you see; the greater the cornucopia of chemicals the more liberated the consciousness. Due to slow government regulation in this area, on offer is a contemporary beyond post-modern take on what the purpose of drugs are in society. Thompson and others realised as the dire 70s came into view those that believed they could achieve enlightenment on a tab of LSD were at best stubborn and at worst stupid. For mind-altering substances simply offer awareness towards the door, not beyond. Beyond the door lies the rest of your life distinct from the psychedelic experience; people can on various levels be aware of things learnt during the ineffable taking root as a result in regular normality. There are as a result practical points to be harnessed for your own self-development and for wider society. Assuming knowledge of Leary's 8-circuit model of consciousness; as the non-essential (to survival) circuits (V, VI, VII, VIII) outlined by Leary are more widely activated in a locality by a greater number of people, the greater the observed incidence of synchronicities that can be agreed upon. A synchronicity is a concept that was first outlined by the psychologist Jung and in modern parlance could perhaps be considered as coincidences 2.0. For a coincidence operates in a temporal timeframe only, whereas synchronicities adopt not only this element but also parallel meaning based on reason with wider relevance. It therefore follows that those versed in the awareness of these sign-posts in reality will over time in this increasingly augmented-with-technology reality exert more influence over the collective consciousness and the general direction than those unaware. There are ethical and moral issues that should be made aware of and discussed before there is mainstream acceptance of such ever present phenomena.