From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 12:40:53 BST
> Ant McWatt comments:
>
> I think Platt just needs to do more reading and painting though I guess if
> he wants to waste his retirement by watching TV and then taking the role of
> the “Fox’s parrot” on MOQ Discuss then of course that’s up to him. As far
> as I am concerned, it’s always interesting to keep-up-to-date with the
> propaganda of the Murdoch mass media and for free! I used to occasionally
> watch Sky News or buy a Murdoch rag but now Platt saves me all the trouble.
Note that Ant avoids discussing political issues due to the vapidness of his
socialist ideas.
> The Beatles beautifully illustrated “Anthology” book (published in 2000)
> also goes into the psychedelic experience in some detail. As George
> Harrison notes, it basically makes you more sensitive towards other people
> (especially falseness), cultural products (such as music) and the beauty in
> nature. Of course, Harrison became a very keen gardener in later life. I
> can understand why the stronger psychedelics (such as LSD and peyote)
> require strict control (because they can be dangerous for the
> inexperienced) but the banning of psilocybin mushrooms (which only have a
> mild effect on perception) in many countries is undoubtedly done to hinder
> the emergence of a free-thinking movement more interested in spiritual and
> artistic development than the self-centred materialism promoted by
> capitalism.
You would think by this time Ant would have grown up from the hippie
culture of the 60's. "This was just before Leary and Alpert's notoriety
and the great age of hippies, trippers, and flower children that peyote
and its synthetic equivalent, LSD, helped to produce." (Lila, 3)
I guess once a tripper, always a tripper.
Platt
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