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Monday, August 01, 2022

just when you thought things couldn't get worse

 Michael Pollen, food writer, is behind the pushing of psychodelics as normal.

FLOP Podcast:


One of the world’s foremost chroniclers of the intersection of the human and natural worlds, Michael Pollan is a No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of eight books. These works include How to Change Your Mind, an examination of the science of psychedelics; Cooked, which was adapted into a Netflix series; Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual; and A Natural History of Four Meals, which won the James Beard Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine for 35 years, Pollan has earned two James Beard Awards, the Reuters-I.U.C.N. 2000 Global Award for Environmental Journalism, and the Genesis Award from the Humane Society of the United States, among numerous other honors. He is the co-founder of the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and is the Knight Professor of Science and Journalism at UC Berkeley. A challenge to rethink traditional notions of drugs, This Is Your Mind on Plants explores the allure, taboos, and effects of three very different psychoactive plants.

hmm... one remembers that stuff about despite chastisement that they won't give up their witchcraft aka drugs/sorcery.

There has been a push coming from a few spots in California pushing drugs and hallucinogens: when AudioDigest included a lecture about this 20 yrs ago, I wrote a letter complaining, and apparently I was not the only one, because they apologized and noted it was to inform us of what was going on, not to push it as treatment.

Soros'Open Society has been pushing the legalization of all drugs since I first read their plans back in the mid 1990s when investigating their suicide/euthanasia plans that included "discussions on end of life treatment" and infiltrating the hospice groups with their minions.

But one wonders who else is behind this push.

then you have the millionaires funding a lot of the push to transgender craze: From the Tablet:


Philanthropist Jennifer Pritzker, at left, and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker

 

One of the most powerful yet unremarked-upon drivers of our current wars over definitions of gender is a concerted push by members of one of the richest families in the United States to transition Americans from a dimorphic definition of sex to the broad acceptance and propagation of synthetic sex identities (SSI).
Over the past decade, the Pritzkers of Illinois, who helped put Barack Obama in the White House and include among their number former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, current Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and philanthropist Jennifer Pritzker, appear to have used a family philanthropic apparatus to drive an ideology and practice of disembodiment into our medical, legal, cultural, and educational institutions.

 

I first wrote about the Pritzkers, whose fortune originated in the Hyatt hotel chain, and their philanthropy directed toward normalizing what people call “transgenderism” in 2018. I have since stopped using the word “transgenderism” as it has no clear boundaries, which makes it useless for communication, and have instead opted for the term SSI, which more clearly defines what some of the Pritzkers and their allies are funding—even as it ignores the biological reality of “male” and “female” and “gay” and “straight.”
The creation and normalization of SSI speaks much more directly to what is happening in American culture, and elsewhere, under an umbrella of human rights. With the introduction of SSI, the current incarnation of the LGBTQ+ network—as distinct from the prior movement that fought for equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans, and which ended in 2020 with Bostock v. Clayton County, finding that LGBTQ+ is a protected class for discrimination purposes—is working closely with the techno-medical complex, big banks, international law firms, pharma giants, and corporate power to solidify the idea that humans are not a sexually dimorphic species—which contradicts reality and the fundamental premises not only of “traditional” religions but of the gay and lesbian civil rights movements and much of the feminist movement, for which sexual dimorphism and resulting gender differences are foundational premises.
Through investments in the techno-medical complex, where new highly medicalized sex identities are being conjured, Pritzkers and other elite donors are attempting to normalize the idea that human reproductive sex exists on a spectrum. These investments go toward creating new SSI using surgeries and drugs, and by instituting rapid language reforms to prop up these new identities and induce institutions and individuals to normalize them. In 2018, for example, at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center at the University of California Los Angeles (where the Pritzkers are major donors and hold various titles), the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology advertised several options for young females who think they can be men to have their reproductive organs removed, a procedure termed “gender-affirming care.”

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and if you think this isn't nauseating enough the NYTimes had an article about the newest fad: A taste for cannibalism. whichs is behind a firewall.

MSM reports that it was so bad that the twittersphere got upset.



 

The New York Times published the outlandish piece, titled "A Taste for Cannibalism?" in its Style section on Saturday. Written by Alex Beggs, the article provided insight into cannibalism’s growing relevance in pop culture ­– especially in a "spate of recent stomach-churning books" – and touted one author’s assertion that cannibalism’s "time is now." Beggs began her piece with a reference to novelist Chelsea G. Summers' story idea of a character eating her deceased boyfriend’s "liver served Tuscan style, on toast." She then observed, "Turns out, cannibalism has a time and a place. In the pages of some recent stomach-churning books, and on television and film screens, Ms. Summers and others suggest that that time is now." The piece provided a showcase for a set of interesting quotes from the creators of Yellowjackets, a Showtime series featuring graphic scenes of cannibalism. Co-creator Ashley Lyle explained her inspiration for the show, saying, "I think we’re often drawn to the things that repulse us the most."Her creative partner Bart Nickerson added, "But I keep coming back to this idea of, what portion of our revulsion to these things is a fear of the ecstasy of them?" Beggs’ piece also sought to find out "what may be fueling the desire for cannibalism stories today." According to Lyle, it’s the current "strange moment." She mentioned "the pandemic, climate change, school shootings and years of political cacophony as possible factors." Lyle explained, "I feel like the unthinkable has become the thinkable and cannibalism is very much

 about all I can say is: Come Lord Jesus

squarely in that category of the unthinkable."

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