Les Paradis Artificiels

"In his first book, Nietzsche defined ebriety as "nature's game with man". Playing is not working or building. It is not performed out of necessity; there's always some form of pleasure as fuel: we play because we play, gratuituosly. Let me add that this play includes two elements in perpetual association: the what and the who. Divided into somebody (that is) feeling, and something (that is) felt, we find that knowledge is our fate, because we are the who, the rest is the what, and the shuttling back and forth of subject and object makes science. Undivided, the what and the who happen to be life, simple life. Knowledge tends to separate, analysing, just as life tends to incorporate, synthezising.
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As old and modern heathens, I consider ebriety to be a remedy against the contraction of our ego, which brings us back, once and again, to a basically "transpersonal" health. In healthy people, when ebriety pushes away the masks the usual outcome is explosions of laughter, followed by different insights.
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Demonizing them [drugs] has only made us more helpless, more cruel towards our fellowmen and more idiotic in the original sense of the word -for idiotés means in classical Greek a person who blindly delegates to others the care of public things. Not only our well-being, but the well-being of our sons and grandsons, depends on disseminating patterns of sobria ebrietas, which reconsider the use of psychoactive drugs as a moral and aesthetical challenge, essentially related to the adventure of knowledge -and also as a palliative for difficult parts of our existence, and for bitter lives. In other words, we should dignify what is now debased, in order to cope with the generalized delusion and abuse created by the prohibitionist experiment."

Voici les temps des Assassins

Antonio Escohotado