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[Peter Klapes]

How would the anti-psychiatry movement respond to this—the psychedelic-rise in the United States during the ‘60s? Also, how can we reconcile this desire for pleasure and an ‘ideal’ experience with a desire to eradicate capitalism and its structures (of fetishization and commodification)? Doesn’t the use of psychedelics commodify the experience of ‘expanded consciousness’? Aren’t all visions—the creation of prophetic symbols out of natural phenomena—commodifying and fetishizing? Are psychedelics not just another opiate of the masses? (It’s fine if it is—but mustn’t we admit that it is?)

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