“these people consumed mushrooms regularily and by the way they consumed mushrooms, the mushrooms took over their personalities…”

  • AgreeableLandscape☭
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    2 years ago

    these people consumed mushrooms regularily and by the way they consumed mushrooms, the mushrooms took over their personalities…

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      If you’re wondering if this was a real article - yes it was. Used to be a bit of a legendary meme in Russia. IIRC the author did it as a joke to parody the various pseudoscientific articles that were cropping up in crazy amounts at the time. Unfortunately, many didn’t get the joke and thought it was a “serious” study. You know, serious like astrology and whatnot.

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        Except that it was not an article, it was a joke one-shot program for TV One of the funniest things I’ve seen, especially considering that everyone present during filming can’t hold in laughter.

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        Wild how the destruction of communism instantly caused flood of charlatanerie in all afflicted countries.

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          Nah, this whole thing was a joke from start to beginning. Some kind of a statement on the journalism and TV contents of the period iirc.

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            it prepared the people entering capitalism to not trust everything on the news. which i guess most had already incorporated into the cognitive dissonance of living through those last days of the soviet union. overall a great move of defiance, of which i wish we could see more in capitalism these days…

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          When you lose your job and all your savings, and the world around you becomes a living hell, then your mental health will clearly not be in the best position.