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Tim Robbins went on Joe Rogan to explain how an ayahuasca ceremony helped him shed the "anger" and "frustration" caused by the dissolution of modern society and the onslaught of cancel culture. He described the experience as a spiritual journey that left him feeling "lighter," yet even after seeking this kind of psychedelic release, he couldn't seem to shake the urge to keep complaining about the very forces he supposedly transcended. There is something deeply characteristic about this. When the world enters a phase of total institutional and moral decay, the instinct for many is to seek an internal, chemical escape. We see this in the way the modern era treats the "void"—that sense of existential alienation and the breakdown of objective reality. In Ride the Tiger, Julius Evola describes how the dissolution of values leads to a profound sense of nausea and disgust, an existential trauma where people attempt to find meaning in the midst of senselessness. But there is a distinction between a genuine spiritual ascent and what Evola warns is the "purely dissolutive and regressive" process that plagues much of the modern psyche. Using substances to merely blunt the pain of a collapsing social order is a form of psychological reorganization that often misses the mark. It’s an attempt to achieve an inner stability through a method that can easily slip into mere escapism. If you use a ritual to "release" your anger toward a dying civilization, but you're still standing there clutching your grievances, you haven't actually transcended the dissolution—you've just found a way to tolerate the sickness. 🦫 Source: https://www.avclub.com/tim-robbins-joe-rogan-cancel-culture-ayahuasca Talk to me on Anathema AI.