Emma Goldberg

Psychedelics will solve the Israel-Palestine conflict. That was one thing that came out in news articles. But, you know, psychedelics can't do all this. In fact, you know, I would think that. As we've been talking about, the very heights of Silicon Valley's power, some CEOs are already doing psychedelics. If they were going to fix society, it would have already been done.

I think it goes along with recent stuff like you heard Sergey Brin say that his tech workers should be working 60-hour weeks in a way that's kind of disturbing. That a lot of the tech industry and a lot of startup culture that's evolved around there is really set on kind of cultivating this family image that we're all in this together every part of our lives.

I think it goes along with recent stuff like you heard Sergey Brin say that his tech workers should be working 60-hour weeks in a way that's kind of disturbing. That a lot of the tech industry and a lot of startup culture that's evolved around there is really set on kind of cultivating this family image that we're all in this together every part of our lives.

I think it goes along with recent stuff like you heard Sergey Brin say that his tech workers should be working 60-hour weeks in a way that's kind of disturbing. That a lot of the tech industry and a lot of startup culture that's evolved around there is really set on kind of cultivating this family image that we're all in this together every part of our lives.

This has to be dedicated to this company. This is how startups get off the ground. There's a lot of this rhetoric going around.

This has to be dedicated to this company. This is how startups get off the ground. There's a lot of this rhetoric going around.

This has to be dedicated to this company. This is how startups get off the ground. There's a lot of this rhetoric going around.

There's a good book on this subject called Work Prey Code, specifically about how all of this religion, whether traditional or Eastern or esoteric or whatever, get lumped into tech industry stuff is because it's designed to cultivate this sense of closeness, this kind of bonds with your worker families that you're constantly focusing on bringing, you know, capital to your company.

There's a good book on this subject called Work Prey Code, specifically about how all of this religion, whether traditional or Eastern or esoteric or whatever, get lumped into tech industry stuff is because it's designed to cultivate this sense of closeness, this kind of bonds with your worker families that you're constantly focusing on bringing, you know, capital to your company.

There's a good book on this subject called Work Prey Code, specifically about how all of this religion, whether traditional or Eastern or esoteric or whatever, get lumped into tech industry stuff is because it's designed to cultivate this sense of closeness, this kind of bonds with your worker families that you're constantly focusing on bringing, you know, capital to your company.

For me, I think it's commercialization of other cultures. If we look at Ayahuasca specifically, actual indigenous cultures in Western Amazonia and Iquitos, Peru are very, very diverse. There's no one concept of what shamanism is. There's no one practice.

For me, I think it's commercialization of other cultures. If we look at Ayahuasca specifically, actual indigenous cultures in Western Amazonia and Iquitos, Peru are very, very diverse. There's no one concept of what shamanism is. There's no one practice.

For me, I think it's commercialization of other cultures. If we look at Ayahuasca specifically, actual indigenous cultures in Western Amazonia and Iquitos, Peru are very, very diverse. There's no one concept of what shamanism is. There's no one practice.

And yet the version that's kind of being sold to a lot of wealthy American tourists is a specific, very commercialized, you know, business appropriate aesthetic of what an existential experience is supposed to be like. That's really had a lot of other parts of it shaved down and commercialized fit that.

And yet the version that's kind of being sold to a lot of wealthy American tourists is a specific, very commercialized, you know, business appropriate aesthetic of what an existential experience is supposed to be like. That's really had a lot of other parts of it shaved down and commercialized fit that.

And yet the version that's kind of being sold to a lot of wealthy American tourists is a specific, very commercialized, you know, business appropriate aesthetic of what an existential experience is supposed to be like. That's really had a lot of other parts of it shaved down and commercialized fit that.

And so you end up with a lot of indigenous communities that don't really have a lot of resources anymore. and are kind of being morphed and reshaped by American tourist interests.

And so you end up with a lot of indigenous communities that don't really have a lot of resources anymore. and are kind of being morphed and reshaped by American tourist interests.

And so you end up with a lot of indigenous communities that don't really have a lot of resources anymore. and are kind of being morphed and reshaped by American tourist interests.

Well, I think some tech CEOs have a lot of really kind of... egotistical or hierarchical ideas of how society should be organized.