Gambling through the mechanism of risk. Releases all kinds
of chemicals into the brain just as a drug would. As most drugs ingested
internally just manifest themselves by forcing the brain to release various chemicals from
the brains internal system that it would ordinarily released in a different pattern sans the
drug (chemical ingested by the human)
The internet acting as the vehicle releasing brain chemical's that have been
influencing mankind for the last 20 years for better or for worse. The internet
like anything it has two sides a positive and negative aspect.
On
the upside with the internet a person can communicate and express their ideas
to a large audience in a rapid way, on the other hand it limits human
communication to a digital format that lacks much of the nuance that face to face interactions have and
exacerbates loneliness as humans communicate through plastic ,electricity, and
metal in a 2 dimensional formatGinsberg's vision of a historic movement that would transform human consciousness struck a responsive chord in Leary. "We were thinking far-out history thoughts at Harvard, " the LSD doctor recalled, "believing that it was time (after shallow and nostalgic fifties) for far-out visions, knowing that America had run out of philosophy, that a new empirical, tangible metaphysics was desperately needed, knowing in our hearts that the old mechanical myths had died at Hiroshima, that the past was over, and that politics could not fill the spiritual vacuum." Leary felt that the limited vision of reality prevailing in modern society was partly attributable to the dominant drugs, alcohol and coffee. Change the drugs and a change of heart would naturally follow: "Politics', religion, economics, social structure based on shared states of consciousness. The cause of social conflict is usually neurological. The cure is biochemical."(Page 79 book Acid Dreams- Martin Lee)
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