Last Born In The Wilderness

[Intro: 12:55] In this interview, I speak with Brian Pace, PhD, evolutionary ecologist and co-host of the Psymposia podcast Plus Three. We discuss his recently published article at Psymposia ‘Lucy In The Sky With Nazis: Psychedelics and the Right Wing.’ Brian dispenses with much of the cultural baggage that surrounds psychedelic use, including assumption that psychedelic use alone will lead individuals towards more egalitarian and anti-authoritarian attitudes and dispositions.  “As psychedelics reenter the public imagination on an industrial scale, advocates and reformers need to take a hard look at the assumption that the drugs themselves can bring about social progress. Decriminalization, medicalization, and legalization are advancing, but the socioeconomic context, the setting, in which the psychedelic renaissance unfolds, is capitalism. The climate has been irrevocably destabilized and right-wing extremism has risen. There is certainly room for change. Yet there have long been vague implications that w