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The Greens know how to make science rock I knew the Green brothers from the youtube channel sci-show and crash course and expected nothing more than a great infotainment, edutainment overkill. And boy, how they delivered. I´m now even thinking about listening to the podcast to see how much it differs from the written version.
A bit of everything, never too complicated, understandable, and perfectly portioned to fit into every readers´ memory. This is how science education should be done, no matter how dry or theoretical a theme might seem, Green understands how to make it funny, memorable, and easy to retell to always have a good science pun in the backhand if one is into social interaction. As always, there is the lurking question of why this kind of knowledge transfer still hasn´t really reached many schools and universities, but sociocultural, epigenetic evolution just seems to take its time.
The perfect mix thanks to the unique duo of Greens´ expertise as both a successful and highly acclaimed, bestselling nonfiction writer and science education veteran. I guess that this ingenious combination will make it one of the most mindboggling nonfiction books ever, because his huge fan community from youtube, social media, and his books combined alone are more readers than an average nonfiction author could wish for in his wettest dreams.
And the works´ quality is as high as expected, the biggest nonfiction problem of not knowing how to tell a story and have an emotional impact is a never seen problem in this, also a bit personal, collection of narrative pearls. And it´s not just STEMy stuff, there are also philosophical and sociological soft science vibes in the knowledge house, baby. Also, the emotional impact doesn´t pollute the meta, big history Green keeps clean from too subjective, emotional tones, while fully embracing them in the personal and more story and kind of character focused parts.
Antrophocenic main plotline The red line is how the current and coming impact of our 8 billion bunch of naked ape population will form the world we live in and some of the ways of illustrating it shows the expertise the Greens have reached in finding creative, unconventional ways to clothe the old topics in shiny, new bling hot word couture. There could be, for instance, my, much darker and depressing perspectives on the future, but a positive, knowledge based way is always a great alternative to pessimistic misanthropy.
More youtube and podcast adaptions, please! It´s a pity that there may be no further parts, at least Green said so, but maybe the success of this work may change his mind. Even if not, so many other youtube and podcast pearls should be made books and audiobooks, there are so amazing, groundbreaking ideas, theories, criticism, wit, and simple unique ways of teaching science and spreading knowledge that it would be a shame to let them be limited to the audiovisual level and not make them true, pure brain candy.
A praising of human creativity and problem-solving skills, shown on so normal and average examples one could never imagine that their history is so suA praising of human creativity and problem-solving skills, shown on so normal and average examples one could never imagine that their history is so suspenseful.
Gosh, I didn´t know that there was such a huge bunch of other disciplines involved in the creation of everyday objects and how much scientific effort is made to pimp every single aspect until perfection.
Norman shows many examples of what works why, how even simple and banal seeming objects are filled with deep thoughts about each possible aspect and how products evolve. It amazed me that we, because of perfect product design, intuitively know how to use products and how quickly we learn when extra functions are added due to the evolution of tech. I hardly say that something changed my view of the world, but just as after enlightenment to mindful product praising, I tend to look at any design under this aspect now.
That usability and a more subtle way of manipulation by combining body and soul, hand and eye, joy and practicability, have long been ignored in just advertising and marketing products with quite simple jingles and without fusing the message, meaning and the look to ultimate seductiveness is stunning. To perfect how first our allegedly free, conscious minds can be mesmerized to buy a product that is so perfect, handy and good looking at the same time. Why can´t they start designing humans like that?
Reverse engineering why something seems so appealing is interesting for self-reflection, to find out what aspect of one's personality made one so vulnerable for exactly this product and how they could get so deep inside one's mind.
It will be interesting to see what Big Data and AI will make out of the field, I could easily imagine an individualization down to one single customer and her/his special wishes. Too far fetched? Until now, just simple market research, psychology, ergonomics, etc., made a pretty astonishing shopping experience possible and the key element was to know the wishes of all groups of customers. Now, with the collection of soon billions of profiles given in the fictional hands of an AI with 3D printing, nanotech, etc., everyone will be able to lose her/himself in the ultimate, senseless consumerism. But at least a unique one.
Language developed very slow, ugh, ah, and is accelerating faster and faster. Hm, everything seems to do this nowadays. Take all those funny ancient, Language developed very slow, ugh, ah, and is accelerating faster and faster. Hm, everything seems to do this nowadays. Take all those funny ancient, medieval, renaissance texts and how entertainingly cute they wrote, talked, and grammared, isn´t it lovely. For a very long time the control over punctuation, grammar, spelling, was in the hand of the few ever so smart intellectuals that decided what was right and wrong, what a correct standard is and what an evil, wrong, stinking, different approach.
This lead to bizarre overcomplications, reforms that got reformed and so many unnecessary overachiever brain wars that wanted one right language and not an intelligent compromise like, let´s say, for instance, different alternatives to write something as long as the logic and intelligibility don´t suffer. But then the specialist would have had no jobs anymore, so the senseless learning for millions of kids continued.
And then, bang, internet. Not that the poor young ones didn´t have to learn stupid, illogical rules anymore ( I mean, what do they believe language is, math, physics or something?), but now language could start evolving quicker, freer, and more manifold than ever before, with each subgroup, culture, special interest, and it keeps accelerating, bazinga.
This fascinating concept, how language is changing and will develop in the future thanks to interconnecting anyone with all human beings and their knowledge and unique speech, use of language and speaking and writing style, is the main idea of McCullochs´ revolutionary work.
Yes, I know, there are emojis, memes, hashtags, emoticons, much viral stuff that will continue forever, but I find the transformation of the way people directly interact with each other in social media, chats, comments, VR, AR, and in some rare cases, real life, much more fascinating than ;) and grumpy cat. Sorry for that, but neologisms, new slangs, diminutives, and jargon and how they collide with and change the old language, as the digital natives keep using new grammar when they become parents themselves and the before mentioned, is much more fascinating than pics and evolving smileys. I have a certain mentality regarding emojis and I will stay with it, saying: “I´ll tip and tap them. With my cold, dead hands.“ But not before.
It´s all a bit of emancipation too, because, do you know what, in my subjective opinion, is the ultimate proof of conservative stupidity? Having tens of thousands of linguists in universities all around the world that play with the rules of languages and boring, useless studies about stuff nobody is interested in while important, new, interdisciplinary, progressive fields get no funding for research in this unbelievable revolution of everything regarding human interaction since the internet began. What right and legitimation have all those anachronism custodians to cherrypick and dictate how language has to evolve, when a reform is necessary, and how one has to do grammar, yada, blah blah, and babble? The language is free, wooden girls and boys, chill a bit, open your mind for more levity in language and ethical and cultural references.
But luckily internet linguistics is starting to take off and will analyse a parallel evolution of real and digital language, how stronger languages are cannibalizing others (those poor little ones like German that suffer so much with each anglicism killing one of their old friends, oh look, now it cries) and one has to always keep in mind that we will seem as strange to future people as medieval knights and Victorian ladies seem to us today.
Regarding emojis I asked myself how the biochemical and neurological effect of it will develop if VR and AR are used by kids in some years and they are conditioned to use animations and pictures of mimic, gestures, and body language that are written into their wetware and give conversations and thoughts an extra lawyer, linking different brain regions together and, sigh, being quite useful for human evolution. But not before!
And I still won´t use them, ok!? See, an oldfashioned interrogation and exclamation mark, that´s enough emo for me. And I lold and rofld when the author was talking about a „third place to socialize“ next to work and home, if my math is right, I am still at 0, socialize my …
What amazed me the most is realizing that this living, breathing, immortal thing called language is at the moment creating new generations of language users, that this love affair between tech and blah will last forever and create exponentially more and more different manifestations, that McCulloch already defined different phases and varieties of users, that I am one of the ancient ones and finally realized that I am getting old.
The book is dealing with the history and future of antibiotics and developing cures against multiresistant monsters, especially the experiences of McCThe book is dealing with the history and future of antibiotics and developing cures against multiresistant monsters, especially the experiences of McCarthy himself, his patients, the ethics and functioning of clinical trials, Big Pharma, and how bureaucracy makes it difficult to develop new cures. It´s one of the very few works dealing with this topic and reaching a larger audience, as antibiotic resistance and superbugs are, for understandable reasons, topics no politician wants the public to worry about too much because of the very negative interconnection and correlations to the economy and subsidy models that helped to breed the problem over the last decades.
I´ve been searching for books dealing with this topic for a while now and it says a lot that there is a cloak of silence surrounding the problem, except of books that use a more personal and autobiographical writing style such as https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3.... Maybe I´ll read it, but it seems to be a bit too less specific to correspond to my reading habits, with its main focus on the persons and anecdotes and lesser on the science behind the cure.
Because many different social and societal problems are fused in this coming mega crisis of infested health care systems and hospitals, dust infecting people just talking a walk, small cuts that can kill again, etc., publishers and newspapers dreaded to publish and talk about the real scope of the problem, but finally, the time seems to have come to openly share the facts.
Feeding vast amounts of antibiotics and many other drugs and chemicals to livestock to push growth and not let them die in the horrible conditions they are forced to suffer through a short life until they are butchered and their flesh spreads contamination and is so filled with antibiotics that it has influences on the human body, prescribing far too many antibiotics to humans who have viral infections or don´t need them, people not taking all of their antibiotics, and no interest in research for new antibiotics are the reasons for why humankind will enter the postantibiotic era, when each little infection or injury could be deadly, again. The logical consequence of hyperinflationary floating the whole planet with one of the previously mightiest and best weapons against germs for profit maximization.
It´s not the only field with a similar, coming, and completely unnecessary and avoidable catastrophe, it´s the same with the climate, the second category of multiresistant bugs, fungi, and microorganisms humankind is breeding by using more and more potent pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides in agriculture, ecocide and pollution, etc. It´s not pessimistic to say that we are traveling towards a multi disaster era, because we are fighting an unwinnable arms race against evolution and nature itself by trying to be smarter and cleverer, tinkering around with tools flora and fauna had hundreds of millions of years and microorganisms billions of years to optimize.
I am a techno optimist, but I deem it impossible to find enough cures and new drugs, not to speak of a sustainable economic and political system that doesn´t include self- destruction buttons made out of pure greed and worshipping the almighty mister mammon.
As a doctor, McCarthy has to have an optimistic outlook to stay motivated and have a positive effect on his patients and although bacteriophages, nano-, and biotechnology promise breakthroughs that could heal, only the richer people in the wealthy nations will be able to pay for the treatments while the rest of the world's population stays a breeding ground for the unnecessarily unleashed demons.
Smallpox and anthrax are just the 2 main protagonists of this novel, but there are many others out there, some unknown or still to evolve.
One has toSmallpox and anthrax are just the 2 main protagonists of this novel, but there are many others out there, some unknown or still to evolve.
One has to look at the potential quantity (not quality lol, they nearly killed themselves because of incompetence) of the Soviet biowarfare program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioprep... and extrapolate the potential to now and the future to understand the sheer dimension of it.
Much of the research has the potential to cure all illnesses, as especially viruses are so mighty tools that they could be genetically engineered brainwashed and used to be good instead of evil, and pharmaceutical companies are at this end of the spectrum, doing the opposite of what secret biological warfare research is trying to achieve. I do think that it´s more possible that the military will find cures earlier, as the budget, especially in a country like China, is circumstantial and the results don´t have to be economic so that all approaches can be tried. As long as it kills better, of course, but a side effect and collateral benefit could be cures we aren´t able to imagine. Of course, it would fall under military secrecy, but there is not much difference to the commercial studies that are as secret as possible too due to industrial espionage. It also sounds better and is easier to explain that a company found a cure than to admit that a cure for cancer was accidentally found while trying to breed an influenza rabies hybrid. General: „Didn´t I tell you to develop killers, not cures? Bad scientist, bad, shame on you wasting our governments´ money for this!“
It´s the huge variety of possible options in producing biological agents that make them even scarier. The intuitively most logical form, an active virus that can be directly released, seems horrible, but is less dangerous as the alternatives that could be used as timebombs. Microbes are pretty tough and they can wait, sleep, get active again, and with biological engineering, in the mix this means that one could produce something that is completely harmless when it´s cold, dry, and dark, but activates when hot, wet, and bright. The possibilities to use this are endless, as it wouldn´t even have to be exactly coordinated, it would be enough to just wait for spring and summer, for the day to come and the sun to shine or for the weather to change and, let´s say, pluvial period to set in. Anthrax was just the beginning.
If the agent is unknown and thereby undetectable or a mighty state spreads such agents with the help of foreign intelligence services, special forces and secret agents, there could be thousands and more clusters distributed in neuralgic points of the enemies´ infrastructure until the conditions are perfect and the trade war or real war can begin. It could, of course, be fully automated too, using living agents or by generating the right breeding conditions in small or tiny, miniaturized machines that activate at the same time, breed until trillions of active killers are waiting to be released and open the gates at the same time.
Nobody knows how much of this is still fiction and how much real military mind and plan games and simulations, but I do believe in the human creativity to kill as many others as possible and would subjectively say that anything possible in this regard will be done.
How large such facilities might be is another question I keep asking myself, are it just normal labs with secrecy and soldiers around or is it going in the resident evil and horror direction with huge underground hives or prohibited areas where everyone breathing in the wrong direction or taking a picture from miles away gets shot. And, of course, human testing to see how it works and in what dimension it´s done, if it´s right next to the labs or if they take the risk to transport the new creations to the torture chambers of a black site. It could look like this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...
One just has to look at what has been revealed about disturbing human subject research and I didn´t even mention combining it with breeding Übersoldiers that are resistant to the biological warfare agent that kills everyone and are quicker, smarter, stronger, and much sexier than the average G.I. Joe.
I am no biologist or physician and can´t say how useful it is to keep probes of smallpox and other monsters we might be able to exterminate except of probes, and if we would have the ethical obligation to destroy everything. On the one hand, there is the possibility of a terrorist attack or a lab accident (or a scientist going bonkers) killing million, on the other hand, it could be positively used in the future in medicine and life sciences in ways we can´t even imagine. As genetic engineering accelerates, the vicious elements could become angels of longer life and cures instead of death, as they are so mighty that annihilating this potential forever seems questionable.
I guess biological warfare programs will definitively be continued in space, be it in habitats, space stations, or on planets with or without atmosphere, as those destinations are just too perfect for such endeavors to not create solarpox. Also a great first contact scenario if it´s as far away from the earth as possible and the first place aliens come to visit, in the style of: Alien: „Is this a secret and highly illegal bioweapon program to exterminate all or just certain parts of your own species with ethnic bioweapons? Are you all space nazis praising eugenics?“ We: „No, no, this is a misunderstanding. We do important medical research here to cure…let´s see…damn.“ Alien: „Well, keep trying exterminating yourselves, if you aren´t successful, we´ll visit again in a few hundred years if you are mature enough for the galactic community and all the technologies we wanted to bring to help with your evolution.“ We: „No, let us explain..“ Alien: „Are those probes of extraterrestrial microorganisms you are adding to the deadly mix back there?“ We: „We didn´t know it were your probes that…“ Alien: „Bye.“
Hager shows how huge the impact of some chemicals and elements on human history has been.
If the opium poppy would have preferred other areas to grow oHager shows how huge the impact of some chemicals and elements on human history has been.
If the opium poppy would have preferred other areas to grow or would have been more of a weed that grows everywhere, much between total global sedation or a new balance of power for the ones controlling the growing areas could have arisen.
Vaccination would have been, even with very primitive technology, been possible and a country with people immune to a virus like smallpox that is actively spreading it, as part of biological warfare tactics, would have had an immense advantage.
Getting antibiotics in the form of cultivating fungi and perfecting the method over centuries without any modern technology might have led to an all-natural approach to world domination thanks to gangrene free soldiers that are quickly back on the battlefield.
Other drugs such as statins and Viagra might have no Big History (ical) impact, but a positive one on the health and joy of both patients and big pharma, a behemoth Hager has some things to say about, such as risking the health of millions of people by just developing towards the most profitable drugs and ignoring other, often more important research in fields such as antibiotics or vaccinations or cheap generics or…
I like mind games, hypothesis, uchronias, alternative realities and it are ideas, technologies, and chemicals that formed, often in union with crazy coincidences, human history. Just imagine for instance:
Mongols with poisons so potent that a tiny cut by an arrowhead can immediately kill. Any evil empire as the only one with antibiotics or a similar important medical technique. Ancient Rome or another ancient empire controlling the opium trade and using it as a weapon as the Brits did. A much earlier development of the technologies necessary to produce something in high quantities and quality. Etc.
The emperor or god king was nothing without the herbal women and alchemists.
The ideas and concepts compressed in this work could be used for several academic careers and it´s focused on one of the most underrepresented, and trThe ideas and concepts compressed in this work could be used for several academic careers and it´s focused on one of the most underrepresented, and tragically at the same time most important, topic of interdisciplinarity and cooperation.
It´s economical logic that no company is interested in fruitless research about what would be possible in collaborations with other fields of science one has no made investments in and so it simply isn´t done. The state could stand in by subsidizing much more research that isn´t focused on marketable products, but on what synergies could emerge when the advantages are mixed together.
Kelly is big in nostredameian style of predicting many developments that are already there and will come, and looking back at 1995, 25 years ago, it seems even more amazing that he managed to extrapolate developments that were deemed fringe science, impossible, not profitable, or were simply disliked by the leading scientists of some fields because they preferred their own yada thesis. He predicted nanotech, internet, computers, he talks about so many interconnected topics, making the work a mixture of technology, biology, many social sciences, and philosophy, giving so many inspirations one could bath in for months.
A bit too much techno optimism lead to some forecasts that were just unrealistic, but especially the comparison of natural and human made systems is ingenious, as it doesn´t only embrace the importance of nature conservation, but leads to more focus on interdisciplinarity and learning from models that are functioning for eons. The idea of this book should be reinterpreted with all the modern science and extrapolated to different distances of the future in a mixture of Michio Kaku and John Brockmans´ Edge question books, just a bit more coherent than in this case, where the chapters stand isolated from each other without much metacontext. Quite an irony for a book about that everything is connected.
Many mainstream thinkers will, even today, definitively find the ideas impossible to implement for laughable reasons, looking at you, economics and political sciences, but keep on playing around with stupid ideas, it´s so cute.
The visionary extrapolations of the author are bit by bit coming true in each second technology evolves closer to war without human fighters. Singer dThe visionary extrapolations of the author are bit by bit coming true in each second technology evolves closer to war without human fighters. Singer describes the coming and already there development in convincing and fact-based words that will inevitably lead to a humanless war and his predictions are so visionary that 10 years after the first publication more and more of it is becoming reality. He even includes some geopolitical and leadership topics that seem pretty convincing.
Especially the short chapter about the influence of Sci-Fi on real-life science is identic to my opinion and I would like to illustrate it with a little family tree of the idea of space flight and especially rockets.
The idea from something coming up and down from heaven with or without transport vehicle is pretty old and nearly each mythology or old culture has some elements of that in it, what influenced Jules Verne to write „From the earth to the moon“, what influenced Wernher von Braun to built the first potential intercontinental ballistic missiles what enabled the space program that enabled the coming mars and moon colonialization that will enable outposts for the coming war against alien species XY. You see, the thing escalated quickly and the process will be the same with fully optimizing and perfecting destruction, war and misery.
We are so ridiculously chanceless against AI, be it sluggish human reactions times of a third of a second vs. a millionth of a second in an AI or the week-long planning and extremely slow and inefficient realization of a war that can be planned and perfectly performed within hours or even less by an AI.
As if there were just advantages, everyone on the homefront will be happy because nobody will lose a loved one and the robots can do their work 24/7, except for some fueling, maintenance and reloading it there are still no laser weapons that can be contactless loaded over vast distances. The losers are never mentioned in history, so it´s not necessary to care about them. Unfortunately, all soldiers who risked their lives to fight for their country are jobless now too, what creates the same problems as in all other working sectors that are massively endangered by automation and human-like androids doing everything better, faster, always friendly, never sick and without any annoying worker rights or social insurance.
But in a positive scenario, it could lead to a post-scarcity society and to a point where nobody has lost a family member in a war or conflict anymore. That could break the endless circle of vendetta and hate and lead tot he realistic option that the grandchildren of hereditary enemies become friends, maybe even give birth to a symbolic child of a warless world. Boring!
In a negative scenario without nukes, the leading producer could go straight towards world domination. In a more realistic scenario, there won´t be any casualties so that nobody would care and want to know anymore where and how the military and the government are killing on any place at earth one can´t even pronounce like in all those already ongoing drone operations. Just the ones we know about and that aren´t black or secret operations of course.
Automated war in general is an underrepresented topic because it´s consequences for tens of millions of soldiers and the dangers for peace that come with it are highly disturbing and nothing one wants to think about. But it opens questions like:
May the AI or the man in the machine or the humans partly in control or he deus ex machina or a conflict between AIs, etc. be the most dangerous element in the future of warfare? Might make more conscience and feelings robots even more effective, especially in training each other, or is it a bad idea and they will become mad and tearful instead? How much autonomy should those systems have? Each human in the chain of command makes it slower and giving all keys to one main AI, controlling SubAIs who control different fields of slaughtering, is the best option.
The only great advantage, as mentioned, may be that no humans will have to directly die when it is a match between fully automated, conscious machines or remote-controlled machines, but to be instead indirectly defeated and controlled by the invading power with the maximal production capacity to endlessly produce war material and killing machines. At least if the production costs of robots aren´t higher than the socioeconomic and political costs of dead soldiers.
Let me finish with an often stolen, half baken, partly funny remark and say that I am very willing to help our aspiring evil mad AI Skynet overlords in using the field of creativity to calm and herd together readers of this review by using demagogic propaganda techniques as long as creativity can´t be automated and I will become useless for them too and used to fertilize the fields.
Until now at least the border controls and ever better satellite technology to find the growing regions could limit the dimension of the drug trade. IUntil now at least the border controls and ever better satellite technology to find the growing regions could limit the dimension of the drug trade. I mean, except with meth and chemical drugs and... With this new, emerging production capacities, everyone willing everywhere on the planet will get capable of becoming a tiny version of Pablo Escobar.
Like all good books about organized crime that dig deep and show both the personal tragedies of all affected and integrated and the global dimension and potential for destruction, it leaves the reader speechless after finishing it. It might lead to questions of how to deal with this problem in the future, what might go wrong in crime prevention, substitution programs and probably society too.
But as soon as a topic has taken over the mind, it starts rotating and leads to the wonderful realm of subjective extrapolations and, my absolute favorite, future settings, as following:
Organized crime becomes an early adopter of modern technology and with 3D printing, bioreactors, fermenters and harmless and legal commodities, there is a huge market to operate in.
That is the dark side of personalized medicine, better pharmacy and general technological progress and one of the best ways to minimize harm may be the development of better agents against overdoses or, in farther future, something like an implanted scanning device that prevents that drug user kill themselves.
But at the moment, organized crime has seen it´s chance to produce more and more drugs cheap, in just one place and without hardly any chance of getting caught. The advancements in biotech, AI and microelectronic have made it possible to create huge amounts of pure, extremely potent drugs that will float the markets. I believe that there might already be programs and intelligent software on the dark market, that coordinate large scale production machinery with a few chemists, bioengineers and programmers for finetuning. Just imagine the potential in contrast to conventional drug production that is limited in quantity because of the areas where the plants can grow. This new way of manufacturing has the potential to run 24/7 forever and produce a vast amount of nearly any drug.
Meth is a precursor of this development and in its case, some of the ingredients are still difficult and conspicuous to get in large amounts. The logical final step is and will be to produce the more dangerous ingredients next to the real drug production and this will be a lab too well-conceived and too unobtrusive to be found without traitors. And until then there will be enough corrupt countries and companies that are willing to produce anything needed for enough money.
Probably users may produce both the drugs and the antidote at home, with a special chemistry lab for synthetic drugs and a bioreactor with genetic engineered microorganisms for polydrug use. Yeast has already been genetically engineered to produce opioids and that is just the beginning. No matter if the required machines are sold on the black market, homemade with the help of internet tutorials or modified, legal versions of official products, it will happen. Humans have taken drugs and will keep on taking drugs and there is a positive aspect too.
To produce your own medicine could be a part of a self-sustainable society in which everyone gets the right dose of the right medicine at the right time. And the freedom of choice to use drugs responsibly and without harming others and oneself just moderate is so complex that a state with its laws and bureaucracy shouldn´t be the final instance to decide. Healthy adults should simply have the right to, under the supervisory of a kind of AI or, as mentioned, implanted chip, or, oldfashioned, trip sitters, to experiment if they want to, because it is their body and their free choice. Of course, all this is just right as long as we talk about not deadly, primarily psychoactive, not addictive, already in therapy used drugs and not hard drugs. Someone could probably produce both the drug and anti withdrawal drugs and antipsychotic drugs at the same time to consume it all to avoid addiction and getting too psychotic, but that may not be the right solution just to be able to take meth, heroin and crack cocaine.
Is there any solution to the problem? As seen in the chapter about the Chinese factories producing huge amounts of chemicals, nope. This production line can be built anywhere and thanks to sustainable, free energy, in every no man´s land too. The only solution may be a fairer society so that humans don´t need deadly stuff to flee reality. And not allowing pharma companies because of lobby influence to become the largest heroin dealer in history may be a beginning too. Because in Europe, pain patients seem to be treatable without beeing turned into junkies, just as it was a few years ago in the US because simple common sense tells one that hard drugs should not be legalized.
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