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Why the New Right Loves Nootropics
see neuroscientists as the “new high priests of the secrets of the psyche and explainers of human behavior in general.”
Sally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
The whole right-wing trend is people who want to look upstanding while they go home and do as much weird stuff as they can get away with.”17
Neil Slaven • Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa: The Story of Frank Zappa
One book that feeds into New Right thought is The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris. Unlike the left-wing premise that we are all malleable by society, Harris points out that much of the development of the individual is genetic, innate, and internal.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
To my mind, the pro-psychedelic position is most fundamentally threatening to the Establishment because, when fully and logically thought through, it is an anti-drug, anti-addiction position. And make no mistake about it; the issue is drugs. How drugged shall you be? Or, to put it another way, how conscious shall you be?
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Led by public figures like Michael Pollan, Tim Ferriss, and even Joe Rogan, and leading institutions like Johns Hopkins, NYU, Berkeley, and Imperial College London, therapeutic psychedelics are going mainstream again
Packy McCormick • The Magic of Mushrooms
For years, the New Right has had little political representation and been treated as beneath notice by the mainstream press. This is no longer an option, especially in a social media world. Its members are smart, they are organized, and, most importantly, they do have a very coherent worldview. Illiterately tweeting “YOUR RACIST” over and over at o
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