Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.

Now administering third eye drops. Greetings, friends, Michael Philip here and I ask you, do we need cultural rule sets,

religion, ethical systems or would we be better off without them?

Are they just tired, albeit persistent emanations of power structures of the past or are they really making us better people?

Are they really necessary for a better civilization?

I've considered this a lot directly and indirectly

throughout the course of this show.

I guess I had my life.

And you'll hear some of that consideration being worked out in this conversation

actually but I think I have come to a realization and this may sound super straight

laced of me but I think we do need them.

But now of course allow me to dose that conservatism with a techno-delic idea concoction. I don't believe we need them in their current form. In fact, I

think they could do with an overhaul and a severe restructuring, but I do think we need them. We need them because we require a narrative.

And that's what these philosophical paradigms like religion are. They are vessels for a story. And whether we like

it or not, that's what we live within. We live within a web or maybe even a hierarchy of stories.

And there's actually a book about this. It's called the Storytelling Animal

by Jonathan Gotshawl, in which he essentially

argues just that, that we are constantly

taking in narratives, whether it's from the news, from movies, media, or self-generated stories that

blossom out of dreams, daydreams, our imagination, it's all narrative.

And furthermore, he postulates that stories have some sort of like actual evolutionary advantage in that we require narrative to prepare for the future, to avoid potential danger, to inhabit hypothetical possibilities which makes it easier for us to survive

such that if we didn't tell stories we may not live as long.

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