Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men?
It's the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!
J.B. Pritzker's mandatory universal mental health "screening" in Illinois public schools will certainly be resisted. I intend to be out on the barricades myself over that! Trump's psychedelic intentions will go down in flames, if not from social resistance based on religious morality, then from scams and public failures of the medical "science" that would be necessary to make these so-called "medicines" respectable.
Unfortunately, this will be bad for our national health security. Covid pandemic mishandling was already nearly fatal by itself. The country's top doctor-scientist-hero (Fauci) was rendered a joke. Investigations and conspiracy theories will keep rolling for at least another decade into the future even if nothing else really bad happens. Nobody has the kind of confidence in "expert authority" that they used to have. Only a few people have gone out to assassinate health care CEO's. But that's so far: it won't take a whole lot more.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
The prospect that some really bad thing like the pandemic will not happen again soon is remote, especially if psychedelic drugs become as widespread as now appears likely. Those drugs actually create insanity in a person, and profound, broad impatience with morality and the social norms of the culture. The sexual "liberation" of erotic pleasure from reproduction and institutions of marriage was born directly from the struggles of 1968, a high-water mark of LSD consumption. When I was in college in the seventies, we all knew that hallucinogenic drugs made everybody horny. That was the bigger attraction than prospects for any "Jane Dunlap" version of spiritual breakthrough.
No matter what utopia or Vahalla one hopes or advocates for, insanity will derail it; and brute sexual instinct will forever frustrate Platonic rationality. Psychedelic-induced psychosis and unrestrained sexual obsession will ruin Trump's USA, and kill Pritzker's mental health system in Illinois.
If people suddenly believe they have lost their mental health, what will be left to them? Efforts organized by the authorities will never have support from any popular will, catastrophic failure of confidence in authority might materialize overnight, as social cohesion flies out the window. "They decide and the shotgun sings the song!"
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Yeah
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
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