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Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization: Edward Slingerland

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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The Importance of Alcohol as a Tool for Unlocking Lateral Thinking

The importance of alcohol as a tool for unlocking lateral thinking. Play and amusement are other ways to unlock that capacity. We've had taverns and bars since before roman times, but they have played a crucial role in the history of democracy. You cannot tell the story of he american revolution without the network of taverns in the colonies. And the other kind of space that came out of this of delight that i think t is really important to remind ourselves: it too is kond of a creation,.

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