kept out the ri ra, you knew deep down, you were the ri ra. Some people don't realize that until they've lost all their chips. e strangest concession now is that a Mad Max , nuclear holocaust future is so close that it’s assumed , not just science-ction. Economic collapse is as good as certain. Piracy and an- archy come next. ere’s no other way of spin- ning it. In the coming dark ages, Phillip Morris and Jack Daniels will endure like cockroaches for good reason. And not because they're into social equity or eco-sustainability. M y thoughts were broken by the sound of a man screaming outside. Was it music? Assault on the strip? Maybe neither. No way could I trust my senses. Stamina, failing. e act of walking was so similar to riding a suroard, that we hadn’t made it further than the elevators. Probably for the best. We were easy targets. Vulnerable. Obliterated. Careful. e vibes were turning into jungle drums. Stomach, churning. Easy now. Agree to the moment. rough the piles of unrecog- nizable clothes and publications and garbage I crawled, settling in the corner on the shag carpet. Panic was rising but I tried to distract myself… I pulled up e Guardian on my phone. “Experts urge release of boat strike video as US admiral denies ‘kill them all’ order.”: e allegation that Hegseth ordered the killing of survivors sparked bipartisan concern in Wash- ington that he or others involved may have committed a war crime.… “What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,” Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said a er exiting the meeting. I had to stop. Not helping. e words scat- tered like insects across the screen. Relax. Listen instead to the others. Huxley… deep in recollection about acid in the mountains…. “You waited outside this coee shop and this crazy bus came up and we piled on. And every- one was really cheery and nice. And we sit there, and we go through these back winding roads, beyond Boulder. Up the Flatirons. We get to this spot, we get to the middle of fucking nowhere, this bus goes over this drawbridge, onto this property, and they let us out. And people are standing there in costumes, like you’re on a ight. Captains hat, and ight attendants. And they had all of our names and they’d mark us o and then say, ‘Have a great ight.’
“We thought, ok that’s weird, and then they let us through on this bridge, and we all had our shit, and it was this big thing with no alcohol. None. Nobody drinks. Everyone’s just gonna chill, and the drugs will just show up. Drugs aren’t there. And it’s getting to ten, eleven, midnight, and I had a little bit of molly, so we start sipping on this vial of liquid molly. It was this weird shit. And the Cannapages guys had booze. A secret bottle of whiskey, which was a big no-no but they were the DJs. We probably took ten pulls... my friend was drunk. And then all of a sudden this Shaman shows up. He’s got fucking white dreads past his knees. Comes up, and he says this prayer… then all of a sudden, everyone's tranced and looking weird, and we’re kinda fucked up, we’re all looking at each other like, are we in this? Are we doing this? Should we run right now? en we’re like what the fuck, we’ve stood it out this whole time, let’s just do this. It was blessed by a shaman, made by a chemist. He told his whole story. It was this whole prayer over the goods. en we did it. And he’s like, you will be reborn . And then I started realizing that around everywhere, there were skulls. Every- where. I called 911 probably ve times. I called Lenny. Nothing went through. “But in the essence of this thing I became a soul, and the only thing I saw was that they’re harvesting these people. is guy was drooling, laughing at a stone. Everyone changed roles. My friend ended up taking two that night. And the Shaman was very specic. Nobody overdose. is is the most potent LSD you will do, ever. Be REBORN! And everyone was supposed to be transformed from this LSD. I’ve never taken shit like that. “I got into this rap thing with this guy that was dunking dishes from one dirty sink to the other dirty sink and then stacking it, everyone was in sync to this beat and all of a sudden me and this dude with a huge gold necklace and huge beard just started free-styling and had the most epic little thing, and then you experience something else. You never thought twice, you were literally a soul.” “Was it like blasting o?” Ford asked. “It wasn’t blast o. ere was nothing there . I could not control myself in any way . One time I started beating my chest to some girl because I thought she was attractive. at’s all I did! I came up, I started beating my chest. She was with another dude! en she starts doing something tribal – you were nothing and everything.”
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