Yet underneath the creative process, art also harbors a different, volcanic element.
Psychotropic plants are teleports to parallel worlds.
McLuhan's drug use is proved by his thesis that the medium is the message, although we know that he never used hallucinogenic plants. A peculiar thing about the media guru was that he circulated his trips in the form of aphorisms, whereas the average user, unable to match the learned scholar, received nothing but images whose info value rose to dangerous synaptic levels. In the end, the democratization of total insight may have resulted in a new aesthetics of images, but it hardly produced the kind of world literature to pull the reader into the intoxicated universe. Nowadays, knowledge about the gods, golden ages, extraterrestrials, little green men, the primal band and the global conspiracy is generally available, but turns out to be practically useless. At best, it stops us from acting and inspires us to stage effective power strikes.