'clean, solid, play Pan 1 for us' = NO

For starters, I doubt that any of the teetotal National Party wankers have spent their 2025 correcting subject matter experts about third gender roles in non-Western cultures, writing an opera that's up to the international standard, nor have they invented an AI theory that (yes) has partially superseded previous models within a month, while also formulating a costed, practical manifesto for 2026. These achievements were only possible through the judicious use of ASC (Altered States of Consciousness), which includes my ritual use of psychedelics alongside other techniques like fasting and visualisation. You can bitch and moan that I'm not sober, but you can't deny the results, particularly regarding the Tupaia retelling, which was motivated by ASC revelations. - Brass tacks: I'm not coming after your religious freedoms, so don't come after mine. - This is actually something where Wellington elites owe me an apology. I work in a different field to most of you, and these are simply the tools of it. My film teacher was an ethnographer/anthropologist, and he underwent a genuine PNG shamanic ritual: https://whatliesthatway.com/

Visions are real if you believe in that worldview, just like the 'miracles' that fundamentalists are always harping on about. My films are better, in large part, because of this approach and the aesthetics that I studied while all the people who are trailing my dust studied a bunch of nonsense. Death of the author doesn't apply to movies.