Cracked Interviews Joe Rogan
Over on Cracked.com today they've got an interview with former Man Show host Joe Rogan. It covers some of the topics you'd expect before veering into decidedly bizarre territory. Case in point:
Psychedelic drugs and chemicals certainly seem to be an area of interest. You name-drop Oxytocin (sic – we're pretty sure they mean Oxycontin and not the hormone released during breastfeeding) in your act, and your detailed discussion of DMT is a kind of web classic. Any other drugs our young readers should be trying to get their hands on?
There’s a fascinating theory by Terrence McKenna. He believes that
human evolution was accelerated by the consumption of psilocybyin
[psychedelic] mushrooms. When the rainforest receded into grassland in
Africa a million years ago, the hominids came out of the trees and
started looking for other food sources. If you look at primates in
Africa, they’re always flipping over cow dung to find beetle grubs, and
these mushrooms grow on cow dung.And if you ate these mushrooms, they would do a bunch of pretty
interesting things that would tend to accelerate evolution. In low
doses, mushrooms actually increase visual acuity, which makes you
better hunter. They also make you hornier and give you
consciousness-expanding experiences. It kills the ego, and it makes you
look at life from an enhanced and much more objective perspective.
Those things alone, point to one of the possible reasons the human
brain doubled in size over a period of two million years. Which is the biggest mystery in the entire fossil record. The doubling in size of an organ over the period of two million years.
Right about now you're probably all, "WTF?" To which I say, "Seriously, WTF?" The entire interview can be found here.
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