Several mushrooms of the genus Amanita possess hallucinogenic effects. Amanita muscaria, or Fly Agaric, has been used as a psychotropic drug by Siberian shamans for centuries. Fly Agaric is often hard to find, and as the active agents of the hallucinogen are passed unchanged through the urine, common villagers would collect the affected urine for ingesting. In this way, whole villages could get high on one rich man's piss.
We've been waiting around with a cup on a stick since the days of Ronald Reagan. I understand that the man who affords the mushroom isn't interested in the piss. What I don't understand is how the deluded cascaded classes don't comprehend that they are getting pissed on. What motivates the Tea Baggers to fight the rich man's war?
Monsters hide under beds: Stalin, ACORN, the New Black Panthers, Not Having Guns When You Need Them, Voter Fraud, Lesbians, Communism, Socialism, NPR, Death Panels, Health Care, Losing Your Speedboat to Divorce, Public Workers, Sharia Law, Muslim Community Centers, Planned Parenthood, Welfare Queens, Gay Marriage, Wind Farms, Decapitated Bodies Near the Border, Taxes, Non-native Presidents, Mexicans, Higher and Lower Education, Labor Unions, The Price of Oil Rising, Environmental Protection, Avian Flu, Dark Skin; the list goes on and on...
Meanwhile, ALEC and covert cohorts of elite conquistadors have organized massive takeovers of government. One percent of our richest men control 40 percent of our collective wealth. Corporations pay no taxes. Cities are now under martial law by State decree. Elected officials can be dismissed at will. Rule of law has been brazenly broken with little consequence. State resources are sold to the lowest private bidders. Corporations have been given the status of individual people. Rape has been redefined. The state has asserted unlimited power of authority over women's reproductive rights. Labor rights have been eliminated. All while the twisted and frightened Tea Baggers, showing little concern for these unprecedented Republican assaults on democracy, recite lines from rich men's scripts and shake their fists in angry tirades at their fellow workers.
In shamanic culture, the whole village would get gloriously high when collecting the water of the rich. In our sad times, all we're gonna get in the village is wet from their downwind spray.