OK, I'll skip the poetic allegory in future!
TL ; DR
Rabid right wing tabloid runs positive article discussing "surprise discovery" that ancient humans took lots of drugs.
@ Mitakuye: I don't think anything living grows at all in a vacuum, as it's the ultimate hostile environment...
“I sometimes marvel at how far I’ve come - blissful, even, in the knowledge that I am slowly becoming a well-evolved human being - only to have the illusion shattered by an episode of bad behaviour that contradicts the new and reinforces the old. At these junctures of self-reflection, I ask the question: “are all my years of hard work unraveling before my eyes, or am I just having an episode?” For the sake of personal growth and the pursuit of equanimity, I choose the latter and accept that, on this journey of evolution, I may not encounter just one bad day, but a group of many.”
― B.G. Bowers
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