yeah right boss... ;)

no for orpheus probably going to need some serious medications - careful, thoughtful regime of antidepressants combined with supportive talk therapy for a while - this kind of thing is mainly biochemical - so you have to fight fire with fire, as the shaman would say, poison with poison!

i've had whale-shit-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean depression and words bounce off of it like water off a ducks back .... seriously mixed that metaphor

nice, i love this line

"There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion"

and its got a little roy wilkens strolling through it, Hilarius!

Nice video Geert, but maybe a little dated. Its true that as long as commercials pay the bills, network TV is heavily controlled by what attracts consumers and sells products. But cable changes things, especially the premium channels, and PBS of course. A lot of the comedy is downright subversive - Jon Stewart, Stepehn Colbert, Bill Mahr, etc. There's a whole channel of Left-leaning news coverage (MSNBC). And TV played a vital role in putting a black man in the White House. Ultimately, I think, the Revolution *will* be televised, whether people are getting the feed on TV's, computers, cell phones, whatever. Its a whole different animal these days. Much more diversity and freedom of expression.

Entheogens are making inroads, too. There are more and more positive references - in dramas (I mentioned Fringe and True Blood), comedy monologues, and animated series like "The Simpsons". Penetrating popular culture this way can only be good for our cause. I live in California, and the situation with medical marijuana is truly heartening. The medicine IS available to people, legally and fairly easily. So the precedent is there, to reverse the prohibition of healing plants, fungi, and derivatives thereof. All we need is public opinion to shift our way, and at this point I see TV as helping this along.

Imagine a world where the human race, by and large, had access to the psychedelics. I believe that would be a much better place, don't you? Maybe TV can help to make it happen.