No offense but this nonsense all pretty much leads to no other conclusion.
shareBetter yet, suck my dick and make that a "deep" observation why don't you.
shareThat's pretty sad if that is the only "conclusion" yougot from the movie. I Don't even smoke weed dickhead.
shareA psych-e-delic is any substance that changes the completely mass-media brainwashed and retarded "faux-normal" patterns of brain function idiotic peons like Mhjm6 don't even know why they consider "good" except that they have learned, like Pavlov's salivating dogs, that the display of those symptoms only and not that of a so-called "drug-addict" in the societal maze they're supposed to run their mono-eye-worshipping rat-race in is rewarded by a bone off the table of their masters.
Quick-to-anger/slow-to-understand, no-self-control, awkward, douchy boy, establishement-sellout alcoholics like Mhjm6 who never get laid anywhere outside of a cheapskates' whorehouse and their mother's bedroom ENVY the mental freedom and stress-free existence of those who are fond of substances delicate and delicious to the psyche like cannabis and shrooms. Therefore, to assuage their raging envy and fast-food-chomping misery and make themselves feel better, they have to degrade and sneer at those like Linklater who have learned to decondition themselves from toxic subconscious programming and navigate their true psyches through the use of the chemical keys and maps nature provides in a gentle way, without self-destruction, and can furthermore, prove it, through MASTERPIECE metaphor-expanding and drama-cliche-transcending Joyceian/Youngbloodian works of cinematic art like "Waking Life."
"It's a consciousness expanding drug, if you don't have any consciousness you CAN'T EXPAND IT! Idiots prefer opiates because they like to get rewards without earning them." -- Terence McKenna
Aldous Huxley - Who Are We? (Lecture)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uarTcONu6mw
“Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.” -- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, “The Voice of the Silence”
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensatingly increase and the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom in conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, movies and radio. It will help to reconcile his subjects to their servitude.” ~ Julian Huxley – Preface to “Brave New World”
Except "the freedom to daydream" can also NOT reconcile "the subjects" to servitude by making them quit their idiotic jobs and engage in ridiculing the establishment and chipping away at its foundations slowly but surely until it is replaced by a less "dictating" one.
"The point of the demoralization process was to get people to where they cannot come to sensible conclusions about what is right and what is wrong, about what is true and what is false. Exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures, even if I take him by force and show him the actual, material physical proof, he will refuse to believe it, until he receives a kick on his fat bottom. So, America is basically stuck with demoralization. Even if you start right now, this minute, educating a new generation of Americans, it will still take you fifteen to twenty years to turn the tide of ideological perception of reality back to normalcy." -- Yuri Bezmenov, ex-KGB, "Deception Was My Job"
“Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of behavior. The romantic poetry and fiction of the last 200 years has quite blinded us to the fact that emotions are an active and harmful form of stupor. Any peasant can tell you that. Beware of emotions. Any child can tell you that. Watch out for the emotional person. He is a lurching lunatic. Emotions are caused by biochemical secretions in the body to serve during the state of acute emergency. An emotional person is a blind, crazed maniac. Emotions are addictive and narcotic and stupefacient. Do not trust anyone who comes on emotional.
What are the emotions? In a book entitled Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality, written when I was a psychologist, I presented classifications of emotions and detailed descriptions of their moderate and extreme manifestations. Emotions are all based on fear. The emotional person cannot think; he cannot perform any effective game action (except in acts of physical aggression and strength). The emotional person is turned off sensually. His body is a churning robot. […] The only state in which we can learn, harmonize, grow, merge, join, understand is the absence of emotion. This is called bliss or ecstasy, attained through centering the emotions.
Conscious love is not an emotion; it is serene merging with yourself, with other people, with other forms of energy. Love cannot exist in an emotional state. The great kick of the mystic experience, the exultant, ecstatic hit, is the sudden relief from emotional pressure. Did you imagine that there could be emotions in heaven? Emotions are closely tied to ego games. Check your emotions at the door to paradise.” ~ Timothy Leary, "The Politics of Ecstasy"
“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached 'reality'; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].” ~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, “The Divine Illusive Power”
“We are told 'no,' we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that is being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” – Terence McKenna
“We must all try to understand what is happening and in my humble opinion ideology is only going to get in your way. Nobody understands what is happening, not buddhists, not christians, not government scientists, no one. So, forget ideology. They betray, they limit, they lead astray. Just deal with the raw data and TRUST yourself. Nobody is smarter than you are, and what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you? Inform yourself. What does inform yourself mean? It means transcend and distrust ideology. Go for direct experience. What do you think when you face the waterfall? What do you think when you have sex? What do you think when you take psilocybin? Everything else is unconfirmable rumor, useless, probably lies. So, liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.” – Terence McKenna
"Imitation is the result of inadequate information. Information results in change. Change requires energy. Energy is the result of adequate information. Energy is directly proportional to the amount of information about the structure of a system. Norbert Wiener: 'Information is a name for the content of what is exchanged with the outer world as we adjust to it and make our adjustment felt upon it . . . to live effectively is to live with adequate information.'
Useful information accelerates change. Redundant information restricts change. If sustained long enough, redundant information finally becomes misinformation, which results in negative change.
In communication theory and the laws of thermodynamics the quantity called entropy is the amount of energy reversibly exchanged from one system in the universe to another. Entropy also is the measure of disorder within those systems. It measures the lack of information about the structure of the system. For our purposes 'structure of the system' should be taken to mean 'the human condition,' the universal subject of aesthetic activity. Entropy should be understood as the degree of our ignorance about that condition. Ignorance always increases when a system's messages are redundant. Ignorance is not a state of limbo in which no information exists, but rather a state of increasing chaos due to misinformation about the structure of the system.
The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy is constant: it cannot be created or destroyed; its form can change, but not its quantity.
The Second Law states that the amount of energy within a local system is naturally entropic--it tends toward disorder, dissipation, incoherence. And since energy is defined as 'capacity to rearrange elemental order,' entropy, which runs counter to that capacity, means less potential for change. We've learned from physics that the only anti-entropic force in the universe, or what is called negentropy (negative entropy), results from the process of feedback. Feedback exists between systems that are not closed but rather open and contingent upon other systems. In the strictest sense there are no truly 'closed' systems anywhere in the universe; all processes impinge upon and are affected by other processes in some way. However, for most practical purposes, it is enough to say that a system is 'closed' when entropy dominates the feedback process, that is, when the measure of energy lost is greater than the measure of energy gained.
The phenomenon of man, or of biological life on earth taken as a process, is negentropic because its subsystems feed energy back into one another and thus are self-enriching, regenerative. Thus energy is wealth, and wealth according to Buckminster Fuller is 'the number of forward days a given system is sustainable.' Biologist John Bleibtreu arrived at a similar conclusion when he noted that the concept of time can best be viewed as a function of the Second Law of Thermodynamics--that the measure of entropy in a system is a measure of its age, or the passage of time since the system originated. In other words, the degree of a system's entropy is equal to redundancy or stasis whereas its negentropy is equal to kinesis or change. So information becomes energy when it contributes to the self-enriching omni-regenerative wealth of the system. When it's not contributing (i.e., redundant) it is allowing the natural entropy to increase.
Synaesthetic cinema is a space-time continuum. It is neither subjective, objective, nor nonobjective, but rather all of these combined: that is to say, extra-objective. Synaesthetic and psychedelic mean approximately the same thing.
Synaesthesis is the harmony of different or opposing impulses produced by a work of art. It means the simultaneous perception of harmonic opposites. Its sensorial effect is known as synaesthesia, and it's as old as the ancient Greeks who coined the term. Under the influence of mind-manifesting hallucinogens one experiences synaesthesia in addition to what Dr. John Lilly calls 'white noise,' or random signals in the control mechanism of the human bio-computer.
Any dualism is composed of harmonic opposites: in/out, up/ down, off/on, yes/no, black/white, good/bad. Past aesthetic traditions, reflecting the consciousness of their period, have tended to concentrate on one element at a time. But the Paleocybernetic experience doesn't support that kind of logic. The emphasis of traditional logic might be expressed in terms of an either/or choice, which in physics is known as bistable logic.
But the logic of the Cybernetic Age into which we're moving will be both/and, which in physics is called triadic logic. Physicists have found they can no longer describe phenomena with the binary yes/no formula but must operate with yes/no/maybe.
The accumulation of facts is no longer of top priority to humanity. The problem now is to apply existing facts to new conceptual wholes, new vistas of reality."
-- Gene Youngblood, "Expanded Cinema" (1970)
"O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind!
What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries!
And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries.
A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can.
A hidden hermitage where we may study out the troubled book of what we have done and yet may do.
An introcosm that is more myself than anything I can find in a mirror.
This consciousness that is myself of selves, that is everything, and yet is nothing at all -- what is it?
And where did it come from? And why?"
~ Julian Jaynes