In the 1978 film Midnight Express, during the famous "Section 13" (the mental ward/psychiatric wing) exercise scene, the prisoners are forced to endlessly walk in a clockwise direction around a central stone pillar, which they refer to as "the wheel."

Because Muslims perform the Tawaf (the ritual circumambulation of the Kaaba in Mecca) exclusively in a counter-clockwise direction, walking clockwise is presented as a symbolic inversion of their sacred practice.

When the protagonist, Billy Hayes, realizes how mindless and soul-crushing the clockwise routine is, he defies the prison's unspoken rule and aggressively begins walking counter-clockwise, literally "against the wheel" and into the oncoming traffic of the other inmates. Therefore, the direction the prisoners were originally never supposed to go...and the direction Billy uses to break his compliance...is counter-clockwise.

I do not dream of labor.

Curtis Yarvin laid it out: biofuel. That's the one we're almost certainly getting, because the guys telling you we need UBI today are not going to open their hands tomorrow.

Yes.

If you say disgusting totalitarian shit like this, you are individual responsible for your life being much shorter. How about that?

Can we please nationalize them now, so we have a post office again?

The real punchline is that if you just let the DXM metabolize into DXO, it's still so weak compared to other NMDA receptor antagonists that it barely matters unless you're super sensitive to it. The 2D6 inhibition is basically a gimmick that allowed big pharma to turn an OTC miracle antidepressant into an expensive prescription product.

Every other topic on this website: fuck this cop shit we don't need age verification

This website on Roblox: jail

I wonder why we always lose rights.

Yeah, that's my point. The government determined they were safe, fun, and good for mental health, so they had to clamp down on that shit.

Do you have a point? Yeah, somebody developed a problem while self-medicating with something that has only recently been considered to have meaningful therapeutic value,* I'm shocked. The woman you're judging was basically a citizen scientist by accident because conventional psych care sucks.

*This is not an ass-pull; guess what the actual effective ingredient in Auvelity is.

If you're bothered by "head spins," I'm not sure you know what getting high is.

The problem has always been that nobody pays enough attention to their kids to give them the slightest amount of social stimulation. The new medium is always evil because the kids are always into it and parents don't want to parent.

It was always wrong to acclimate kids to work colonizing their home life. "Preparing" people for the workplace just means conditioning them to believe their suffering is deserved.

The root words tell you what they do: show you your mind. If you didn't have fun, you're boring.

Emotion and culture have nothing to do with it. The government studied psychedelics extensively in MK-ULTRA, and when they found out they usually do very much the opposite of what they wanted, they decided that we couldn't have them without a huge fuss and making sure dosage is controlled to have as subtle an effect as possible. You either get barely half of a nothing or you get blackout, no talking to aliens allowed.