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...thought his suggestions were really enlightening, and politicians should pay more attention to them,” Amanda E. McGowan ’13 said...
...mostly alcohol and marijuana—as a means to find their way out of here, and to some extent, to find a way out of their own minds. Lighting a bong or hitting the bottle, these students use conscious-altering substances to lubricate the transition from thought to work, a process possible when sober but sometimes easier while not. Some use the activity as a communal starting point, gathering around campus to drink or smoke before setting off to work. At other times, they sit alone with a bottle of wine or a well-rolled joint, pondering words...
This artistic objective to break with a preconceived reality comes from a long line of poetic thought, reaching all the way back to Andre Breton and the origins of surrealism. By breaking with the predetermined images of the world in their accepted states and by embracing the unconscious, which does not play by the rules of reality, artists can shed insight on society in interesting and progressive ways...
...little liquor can reduce self-critical anxiety and facilitate the flow of creative thought, who wouldn’t want to indulge in such an effective weapon? Not all students are on board the yellow submarine—or any other color submarine for that matter...
...Davis Dean Keith Simonton says. “That seems to be because self-critical judgment gets turned off. Only later, when they’re no longer high, and they look at what they produced, do they realize that they were nowhere as creative as they thought at the time. The same holds for many other altered states of consciousness. We might have a particularly wonderful dream some night, but find that it bores our friends silly when we try to recount...