Michele Pasin / Quotes

Una società che non trova il senso

Eccolo il segno del fallimento e della follia: non trovare il senso, non trovare l’energia, vivere nel tedio e nella disperazione da doversi imbottire di farmaci e droghe. Da chi ha prodotto questa società e da chi la vive ogni giorno senza alcuna ribellione, non accetto lezioni di concretezza e realismo.

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#meaning #society #drugs

"Addicted To You

"Addicted To You" I don't know just how it happened, I let down my guard... Swore I'd never fall in love again But I fell hard. Guess I should have seen it…

Avicii Lyrics - Addicted To You #eyes #babies #drugs #control #pain

Being Nobody: losing the self in ecstasy

We also sometimes live life under the third scenario, as Nobodies. ‘Human beings have stalked this planet for 100,000 years, [and] we have from time to time…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #consciousness #drugs #music

Being in the world but not of it

Toynbee’s analyses of the various forms such resistance takes are too complex to do more than touch upon here—initially workers tend to be conservative and…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #religion #revolution #drugs #Buddhism #Christianity

Ecstasy and the world made of love

It’s a long time ago now, but the runaway success of the first warehouse parties in the 1980s had seemed to promise a fresh cultural and political…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #drugs #love #ego #fear #culture

Ecstasy before a first acid trip

What’s more, you could (we were getting quite open-handed by now) add an Ecstasy trip to the envelope and suggest that taking it two hours or so before the…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #drugs #psychedelics #friends

Hallucination as an unchecked model

Visual awareness is not simply a translation of what our eyes see. Our subjective reality is an internal model that our brain must check against the input…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #hallucinations #perception #model #drugs