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Love this heavy track from Parkway Drive’s 2018 album, Reverence. A good commentary on the slippery slope we are on towards totalitarianism.

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Absolute Power

Parkway Drive · Reverence · Song · 2018

Absolute Power Parkway Drive Oh Your heart, your home, your voice, it's got a price tag Sign in blood, bury your rights in a body bag They're feeding fear through the fault lines You heard it here first, they got your freedoms on the front line Primetime, the noose at our throats Our liberties hands run with blood of the scapegoats So tell me, how can we demonize When we can't see life through another's eyes? Pay 'em off and play 'em off Fear rolls like a reaper through the streets of the lost Pay 'em off and play 'em off But in the eyes of the storm The truth drops like a bomb The truth drops like a bomb The battle is on Hands in chains for a fist full of dollars Who do we blame for the holes in our knowledge? The past you know has been written by the victor So I ask you now, who is it writing your future? The butcher, the liar, the thief, or the killer? Your freedom died quiet in the halls of power Starved for peace, we'll eat war until it kills us Six feet deep with a belly full of bullets, oh Pay 'em off and play 'em off Fear rolls like a reaper through the streets of the lost Pay 'em off and play 'em off But in the eyes of the storm The truth drops like a bomb The truth drops like a bomb The battle is on, oh The hate runs deep, but our hopes cut deeper Now we walk through the valley in the shadow of the reaper Money talks, and it's speaking in tongues They put a price on our soul like they had already won Now open wide, I see their jaws locked tight Silent in the moment like prey in the floodlights The signal is static, baptised in fire Now we see how they talk with a mouth full of barbed wire Absolute power Absolute power Absolute power Absolute power corrupts absolutely Absolute power Absolute power Absolute power Absolute power corrupts The truth drops like a bomb The truth drops like a bomb The battle is on The truth drops like a- Absolute power corrupts absolutely, huh

Ok. Revelations from last night. So like a noob, I had 3 grams and still hadn’t felt anything an hour and a half later. I thought maybe these mushrooms were bunk. So I had another 2 grams, making it the single biggest dose I’ve ever had. Went to sleep at about midnight after a nice night hanging out by the fire. So at about 3 I woke up to go to the bathroom. Two words: tripping balls. I was aware from previous experiences that the slight feeling of anxiety was expected, so I didn’t let it get to me. But the visuals. Holy shit. I am convinced that some of the origins of Man’s awareness of a higher power may have been discovered accidentally through chance ingestion of psilocybes. I wasn’t trying to guide the experience at all, but not only were there incredibly complex, colourful and moving patterns moving across my field of view, but they were consistently morphing into two repeating forms. One was a male figure sitting in the lotus position with his hands in a position of prayer. The other was a figure of a woman facing me, with arms outstretched and the thumb and middle finger touching, with the index finger and pinky slightly pointed. Both of them were covered with the patterns and colors, so it’s not like they were photographed. And both were emanating a calmness and sense of peace. One interesting thing was the presence of fractal geometry. All of the patterns, regardless of how deep I looked into them, were infinitely scaled. And the colors were truly 256 million with a slight chrome finish. Aside from the visuals that I knew to expect, my main purpose in doing this experiment was to see if there would be any revelations about my self or this world we are living in. The main things I felt as my ego dissolved, the nausea came, and the slight sense of anxiety persisted, was that: 1) we are all a tiny piece of the same consciousness 2) I have made big mistakes in my life and am far from perfect, but my motivations are not self serving or meant to make me appear to the world like something I am not. I don’t know what to say other than this, other than pros and cons: Pros: - Cool visuals and seeing random figures of seemingly spiritual beings, that were emanating a sense of good will toward me. - Stripping my ego away for a short time and allowing a real analysis of my motivations in how I deal with people. Cons: - anxiety - inability to sleep - runny nose - watering eyes - itchiness (all over) - upset stomach - lack of control of the duration of the experience ie having to ride it out, for better or worse. Would do again? Not likely. I’ve experienced this a few times now, and I just don’t think there’s anything more there to learn. Maybe DMT or acid would be something to try, but I’m not sure I need to see anything otherworldly for now. I need to figure out how to make this one better. 🤘🏽

Now there’s a rare sight.

As promised, great quotes from Murray Rothbard: “If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life.” “The essential activities of the State necessarily constitute criminal aggression and depredation of the just rights of private property of its subjects (including self-ownership).” “The State is an inherently illegitimate institution of organized aggression, of organized and regularized crime against the persons and properties of its subjects… a profoundly antisocial institution which lives parasitically off of the productive activities of private citizens.” “We must, therefore, emphasize that ‘we’ are not the government; the government is not ‘us.’ The government does not in any accurate sense ‘represent’ the majority of the people.” “The State is a coercive criminal organization that subsists by a regularized large-scale system of taxation-theft.”

And here we go. I’ll be quoting Rothbard later.

Ok I’m really going to bed now.