最近睇緊How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
係講psychedelics嘅(LSD、迷幻蘑菇嗰啲)
好難相信原來50、60年代嗰時係合法而且做咗好多研究
然後畀Nixon收咗皮
有機會想合法噉試下
準確點說,不干預是實際不出手干預,卻可能保留了隨其意志而出手干預的權力。相反,不宰制是要放棄隨其意志而出手干預的權力。舉例說,一個受主人所寵愛的奴僕,他想要甚麼他的主人都給予,主人甚至完全不干預他的喜好與生活。因此,這個奴僕已經算享有了不受干預的自由。不過,所有人都知道,一旦他的主人改變心意,他的一切都可以被收回。因此,他其實從來沒有享受過不受宰制的自由。
The carbonarism of 1820 to 1823 rose up before me complete with its youthful purity, its sombre mysteries, its idealistic follies, its generous or covetous ambitions, above all with its victims swept off by the storm. . .Poor young blossoms of courage and naïve faith, fallen under the knife, I saw you strewn across the green turf pressed down by my musing steps; your names like faded secret signs floated in the mists of my clouded vision, dimmed by welling tears. You, too, like Ireland’s Emmet, students, soldiers, thinkers, poets, heros, orators plighted to your country, had died for her. . . and we, forgetful survivors, peaceably seated in the pavilion of liberty which we had thought to raise together, have scarcely a fugitive shadow in our memories of you and your names which you had thought at least to bequeath to gratitude and glory. Thus does everything fade and perish here below; for history will not preserve the truth, its two or three pages devoted to these forgotten ‘fanatics’ will portray neither their spirit, their virtues, their passions, their illusions, nor their faults. Only we who, as contemporaries, dreamed the same dreams, ran the same risks, showed the same devotion, could recapture and portray them. Yet we would have to be young again, and already, we are old.