GRGR(12) LSD, for good and evil

[David Morris]

>From: "Terrance F. Flaherty"
>
>Doug Millison wrote:
> >
> > LSD:  life- or death-affirming?  Maybe both -- we've got evidence to
> > support that in GR (and certainly in the sources to which the both leads 
>us
> > rather pointedly), I think.
[snip]
>
>Undercuts it how? I don't understand? Yes, the aristocrats,
>the elite, the white, indole crowd, has, with chemistry, its
>cannon being that man is no longer at the mercy of nature,
>co-opted something. What do you think they have co-opted?
>You describe it as fun, folk, yes, but there is more, much
>more here, isn't there? And if we consider the traditional,
>use of naturally produced (say, blighted grain, mushrooms)
>substances used in religious ceremony, it seems to me that
>LSD, at this juncture, in this context is not life
>affirming, but another pornography.
>
>

In GR's context, LSD is from the genealogy of mauve, which comes from the 
brown-black coal tar, son of dinosaur bodies, black oil and coal.  LSD is 
after mauve and thus lighter than its predecessors.  It is a synthetic 
Lightning Latch.  And as Terrance notes the "blighted grain" reference is an 
anti-'shroomerism.  It matters not whether LSD _really_ is life- or 
death-ish.  Suspend disbelief for the sake of the allegory.

B-but don't forget, LSD might be King Kong, the mutant savior.  If the 
aristocracy of evil-trippers has been around for over 500 years, they've had 
to have co-opted the good shaman's magic for a long time.  Magic Mushrooms 
(and so LSD) may be only a medium to use like language, or a mirror.  It 
need not have values of its own.

David Morris

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