“What seems a god is actually a devil, what seems a liberation is in fact an enslavement” – Aldous Huxley
Category Archives: Revolution
The “ultimate revolution” (2019)
The last revolution will be psychedelic and will involve drugs. The prophecy of Aldous Huxley.
Joker: welcome to the era of global political psychiatry (2019)
Joker sanctions in global popular culture the citizen who becomes patient.
Are we witnessing the emergence of a new global psychiatric power? (2019)
The current public psychiatrization of “the most powerful man in the world,” as the media often describe the President of the United States of America, could be seen as a new paradigm shift in contemporary power.
In addition to the increasing use of a psychologized lexicon in everyday speech, a role might be played by such spectacle communicating symbolically, and contributing to, a global cultural shift towards a subjectivist worldview and a progressive de-politicization of citizenship.
The political career of Mao, Yale and the “reorientation of thought” (2020)
“Between 1919 and 1920, future Chairman Mao Zedong had several encounters with the school: he edited its student magazine, re-focusing it on “thought reorientation,” and operated a bookshop out of its medical college”.
La “rivoluzione ultima” (2019)
L’ultima rivoluzione sarà psichedelica e avrà a che fare con le droghe. La profezia di Aldous Huxley
Trump, his worst critics, and diagnosis outside of a clinical context (2020)
Opposites playing the same game ?
La carriera politica di Mao, Yale e il “riorientamento del pensiero” (2020)
“Tra il 1919 e il 1920, il futuro presidente Mao Zedong ebbe diversi incontri con la scuola: ne curò la rivista per studenti, ri-focalizzandola sul tema del “riorientamento del pensiero” e amministrando una libreria fuori dal college di medicina della stessa scuola”.