Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.

Now administering third eye drops. There is a positively smashing Robert Anton Wilson quote.

It's sort of like a modern concentrated distillation of Plato's allegory of the cave, I guess.

To paraphrase, it's something like,

the way we think of and discuss reality is as one block-like entity, sort of like a huge

New York skyscraper. and although there are multiple rooms in this

structure it's all the same building and this linguistic model of reality, he points out, is so pervasive that if you try to think beyond it or offer a different perspective outside of this consensus block-like model of reality,

this building-like model of reality. You may as well be speaking or thinking gibberish.

And there are a lot of other unshakable paradigms out there.

Value, for example, is the same thing.

Most people look at you as if you're speaking in demonic,

interstellar fart-soaked tongues if you dare to propose another value system

outside of our current monetary paradigm but why?

Because really all we're talking about when we're discussing money

is information.

And we're constantly developing new informational substrates.

We're constantly executing the alchemy of imagination and code to give birth to new technology.

So what's so outrageous about assigning value to them?

What's so beyond the pale about the idea of having an alternative

to a green rectangular piece of paper covered in esoteric symbols and dead famous

fellas.

And although I do think that that is a valid argument, and I have thought that for quite a long time,

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