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Even people who have put the work into therapy need a loving attachment figure. It's healthy to be open and vulnerable when you need it.

I get that. I just felt the need to defend lilly a bit because I've been reading his books since I was a teenager. It's like when you read something inaccurate about a topic you know. Just wanting to correct the record somewhat.

Lilly wasn't a nut job. His dolphin experiments ultimately failed, but it takes courage to try radical scientific experiments. Consider the common attitude towards science in academia these days where so many people fudge their results because they're afraid of being considered failures. Failure is a part of science because you can learn from it. One of the cool things about Lilly's experiments is that he didn't feel the need to commercialise his experiments. They were mostly based on pure scientific inquiry.

Adding to this because I feel a bit annoyed at how John C Lilly gets so badly represented sometimes. He wasn't a nut job. He was a weird guy with a very unique personality. He had an intense passion for knowledge and scientific inquiry. He also had a massive ego. But he was a reasonably self reflective person. Read his books and watch interviews with him. He wasn't just a hedonist who got addicted to K. He always had a very non typical experience of reality. He had hallucinations of angels as a child, partly due to a heavily religious upbringing. It's totally understandable that he was primed for strange trips when he got into psychedelics. But he was able to function as a professional. He had multiple government funded research projects during his career, medical credentials, and owned electrical engineering patents. His characterisation as a kook is very similar to the crap that people say about Tim Leary, who had a successful academic career before being kicked out of Harvard and was actually a very rational person.

This statement from the article is a bit misleading. Lilly had this hallucination during a ketamine trip after injecting 150mg. The article makes it sound like a persistent delusion arising from daily use. Lilly abused ketamine for sure, but he didn't lose his mind. He was a guy who seemed to have strange ideas his whole life. https://www.intuition.org/txt/lilly.htm

I tell you what Jack, he's full of piss and vinegar.

Another sad aspect to this is that often the parents think they are doing the right thing. They're wrong of course. Some people have mental issues that lead them to "magical thinking". I know some people who are anti Vax, and are very health conscious in all other respects. They're just ignorant. One of the founders of permaculture in Australia wrote about being against the covid vaccine during the lockdowns here. I used to live in one of the villages he designed, and the people and their beliefs were mostly lovely. But they have a distrust of science that makes them vulnerable to dangerous ideas.

The only way expansion works I'm Australia is if we build new cities like what they have in Europe and US. Commuting 3 hours to work is not feasible for anyone.

I grew up in the country side working on farms. Post covid I can't even afford a house there because boomers priced me out. My expectations have been meager my whole life. It took me six months to land a shitty 60s falling down 2 bedroom place during our housing crises. In Australia many people get evicted after 12 months and lose their savings to moving costs. You Americans need to stop telling people from other countries what to do.

Ah yes. The American libertarian position. If you find an affordable rental in Australia during a housing crisis let me know.

Whatever mate. You don't know a fucking thing about the job market and housing market in Australia. Get fucked seppo.

You are commenting from an American perspective. There are no houses in Australian capital cities for less than 100k. And there are no job opportunities for many professions outside the capital cities.