Alien Corn!

This is unrelated to my blog, but related to the title. I literally spent five minutes after Dr. Mitchell said 'Alien Corn' drawing alien corn. Not corn possessed by aliens, but aliens that are ALSO corn. Their leader is known as the A-corn and they have been known to stalk people.

Now that we have that out of the way, let's talk about Kubla Khan. The situation regarding Coleman's aversion to the man reminds me that history always repeats itself. With everything we discussed on the hillside yesterday about how he was against the man and for freeing the mind, it's nearly impossible to miss that the 60's-70's are almost an exact parallel. My question is, if you're using an outside substance to alter your mind, how free are you? You're under the control of whatever hallucinogen you have consumed, as opposed to 'the man'. That doesn't sound like freedom to me. It sounds like the person in question is being oppressed by another outside source that they have willingly chosen to go against the masses. Which, since the masses all chose to follow 'the man', and the other person's decisions are anti-societal, they have no other choice but to delve into some outside source for control. Which means that in a roundabout way, going against the crowd is technically allowing the crowd to make decisions for you. That sounds about right.

So what did we learn today? That drugs are awesome? That hipsters' decisions are actually made by the general masses? History repeats itself? Ben loves wibbley-wobbley-timey-wimey-stuff? All good answers. Tune in next week to read this post again due to fall break.

PS. I commented on: Katelyn Osbourne's "Ecstatic Union and Drugs"