Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.

Now administering the third eye drops. Emonation commence and much appreciation for receiving it, my curiosity,

kin.

So Alan Watts has this great riff where he muses, quote,

all of the troubles going on in the world

are being supervised by people with very good intentions.

I actually just posted that on Instagram

because I thought it was so spot on.

But I have no doubt that some people,

upon seeing that, thought to themselves, no way in this time

with this discourse, with these people doing these horrific things, There's no way they have good intentions. But I suspect just

the opposite. I think that as the chaos ensues, it's even truer. I think as we dig our heels in, we're more and more convinced of our own tribes virtues and that our interlocutors are lunatics.

It just gets easier and easier to demonize the other side.

I guess interlocutor might be too generous a word

honestly because there's not a whole lot of valuable philosophical exchange going on, unfortunately.

Anyway, I know I'm not going to be the one to level up said discourse,

but I do want to do a couple things. One, first and foremost, I guess, I want to create a reprieve, I want to create a wonder-facing conversational

hammock free of these fear-based flavors.

That is what I hope to do for you, my friends.

And B, I do want to encourage you to think about that.

And I think in this conversation,

this iteration of the mind meld, we do both of those things.

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