It gets very interesting towards the end when the speaker thinks what future astronomers will think of our informed “discoveries” about space and asks an important question as to whether there are parts of cosmological reality for which we have already lost the opportunity to observe and understand.
In a way scientists realizing limits of our scientific method.
“Fighting the inner urge to be a stripper.” I feel like we all fight off that urge at one point or another…
Hypocrite
Having a moral objection to cannabis use, but not to alcohol consumption does, in fact, make you a hypocrite. I have no objection to either. Everyone enters this existence with one body, and I strongly believe that we should have the unalienable right to do whatever we want with it. If someone chooses to destroy their body with hard drugs or alcohol then that’s their business, and I respect their decision to do so. If you partake in neither then kudos to you for trying to live a healthy life. Just keep in mind that life wasn’t meant to be lived healthily or with caution. Life was just meant to be lived. Nothing more…
The challenge that we are confronted with today is not how to eliminate such influences from our current culture as the knee-jerk response of the political machinery would have us believe, but more rationally, how do we integrate these extremely powerful elements back into our culture, so that they may have a positive and life-transforming influence. Isn’t it strange that all we hear about is drug abuse, but nothing about drug use? It’s as if appropriate and responsible behavior in regard to these substances, isn’t even allowed into our collective consciousness or public dialogue. And so what we refuse to address as a society doesn’t somehow magically disappear, but is driven underground where it becomes distorted, dysfunctional and pathological. - “The Cannabis Papers,” http://www.kamakala.com/cannabis.htm
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