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This idea is provoked by the one about a liberal time of the month, and will need some explanation.
Take a large sample of people and determine their political opinions through a questionnaire, then give them various substances, one by one, for a month, while isolating them from the news media. Then
test their opinions again, against a control group. Eventually, it may be possible to find substances which shifts political opinion to the left or right. The precise nature of these substances might be amusing. Then, find a delivery method for the two most politically mind-altering substance and make everyone take a mixture of them in a constantly changing ratio in a forty-one or forty-three day cycle. The right-wing substance peaks at the end of the cycle and the left-wing one in the middle, or vice versa. The pills, injectable solution, inhaler, patch or suppository is colour-coded to shift between red and blue over that time. Or, maybe it could be packaged in capsules with pictures on them, gradually morphing between beans and angels or something.
Two brains to rule them all
http://www.bbc.co.u...nment-arts-13661538
[4and20, Jun 25 2013]
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Didn't Stalin just use sharp blows to the head? [link] |
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This is why herbalists have never been permitted
any real power. |
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//Didn't Stalin just use sharp blows to the head?// |
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Ah, preferencing retroactive phrenology over the pharmaceutical approach. I approve. |
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//rid ourselves of whatever gene is responsible for the religious urge, the whole world would be a lot more liberal// |
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To a point, I suppose, but people tend to obfuscate religious tendencies with conservative morals, and similarly, rightist political leanings. These are more quirks with the strange bipolar US political atmosphere than human nature, I think. |
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Two parties in the US are there, because of the way the constitution is written. In France a third party can obtain real power, In the UK a similar but geographic thing happens. |
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A Rainbow of pills, not just off and on will be required. |
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//Two parties in the US are there, because of the way the constitution is written.// That doesn't make it a conclusive depiction of the spectrum of human opinion. |
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To be cynical for a second, [MB], all we really need is one herb that works by making people more gullible. |
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Oh yes, purpose! The reason is to enable people to see each others' perspectives more easily. The length of the cycle is to maximise the chances of it being out of step with a twenty-eight day menstrual cycle, which i imagine also changes opinions for some people. I agree it probably is bad science and that there are many axes, but also "we should research". I'm actually wondering if one of them might turn out to be cocaine and the other THC. |
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I don't have a political opinion. |
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People are out of phase, except in Australia of
course. |
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I think I would disagree with that. I have an opinion
on, for example, abortion. It's my opinion. I hold
that opinion independently of the positions of the
various political parties. |
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Are you suggesting that, if it weren't for politics, I
could have no opinion on abortion? |
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Political parties are a branch of show business.
Politics is entirely different. |
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Shouldn't that be heroin and LSD? |
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It might turn out to be something completely
different, such as adrenalin for a fear-motivated
ideology and oxytocin or MDMA for empathy. |
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