476: Objective DMT, Marx the class traitor, and muddy Green Day
Hello from back in California! Sheesh, it’s still winter here, isn’t it? Cold and rainy under the storm of the decade, I hear, and I can believe it. Still, good to be back.
I attended a bestie’s wedding this weekend in Joshua Tree with a novel format: they had a family only ceremony months before, and this was a friends only party weekend complete with a silent disco and video of the ceremony itself.
This aligned the distinct goals of wedding attendees better, sure, but it also made it feel like we had all missed the actual wedding, which…we did.
Have you attended other nouveau wedding formats that worked well?
Tech
Psychedelics are technology, right? Bit of a stretch - chalk it up to this weeks travel.
Still, the comprehensive scholarly way this Youtuber goes step by step through the objective similarities between DMT takers’ subjective experiences (complete with CGI visuals) is fascinating, and a great way for non-users to understand what it’s like. Though of course nothing truly can except the experience itself.
History
I learned that Karl Marx’s life was mainly funded through an inheritance and Engels’ rich industrialist father. The man was a silver spoon bourgeoisie, not a proletariat!
I suppose one’s ideas stand independently from one’s life, though it is an odd fact to learn. Maybe he was the original ‘class traitor’, as Marxists say.
Fun
Watching punky Green Day perform in the 90s before their poppy American Idiot days was eye-opening for this millennial listener.
All the better is the fact that this particular show devolved into an audience mud fight - skip to the end and see all the mud that ends up flung onstage, lol.