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When you throw open Huxley's doors of perception you get an extraordinary experience in the most quotidian of conditions. Like watching a river run by or just watching the washing machine run. Non psychonauts have to do extraordinary things, like become astronauts, to get to a similar level of awe-struck. A trip on a trip is a tragic waste of a trip.
Agreed. Also the hardware glitching while observing it mostly reveals truths about the hardware, very little and indirectly about the world it resides in.
When you're uber-rich I guess you want something no commoner can do.
Conspicuous consumption at its finest.