This sounds insane to say but...

does anyone else get the feeling this comments section is being subtly astroturfed to sabotage the spirit of good-willed idealism and innovation? Look closely, there's reasons the powers that have insane capital would do this.

They've done it to every other space already.

Nym vpn and its community show the outside the system tech spirit still lives on

Also- everyone is a whore now, and not in the fun literal way.

I'd love it if someone went through all of the historic fairy tales and folklore and tried to validly link local psychoactive and hallucinogenic plants to them.

That would be the sociological equivalent of saying "Zoom in, enhance, zoom in, enhance" forty times in a row, until you can identify the shooter from a reflection off a raindrop.

"Where are mushrooms with these chemicals found?" "In ~50% of arable land on Earth." "When was the earliest known rendition of this fairytale?" "8-10 generations ago."

Fantastic article as usual from boston review! Genuinely some of the best writing out there.

Pedantic response that makes light of a real issue. In case you haven't noticed, not every "western" country is actually in the western hemisphere.

All these people know is greed. It's in their DNA.

Capitalism is designed to promote greed. It's the central point of our society's current design.

God hn has so many projects that never go anywhere

At least we all know who western politicians are controlled by now and why they are really doing this.

Australia isn't like that- we're much more attuned to genuine hard work, and know it when we see it, along with knowing when we're being strung along. It's in our culture. We respect great people like this guy who do good work but choose to be humble.