Well, what about that whole drug scene?
SK – I think that, as man frees himself from the workaday responsibilities of the modern world, as computers begin to take a more decisive role and everything becomes automated, there’ll be more time for people to go into perception-enhancing experiences. There’s no doubt that mind-enhancing drugs are going to be part of man’s future. The brain is constructed the way it is today in order to filter out experience which doesn’t have survival value in order to produce man the worker. As soon as man the worker loses some of his responsibilities, which he’s rapidly doing in an automated society, the evolutionary development of the brain will not longer be particularly relevant. So I think that what may seem today like irresponsible action, at some point will seem completely valid and perhaps socially useful. I certainly don’t think that drugs, which make everything seem more interesting that they might otherwise be, are a useful thing to the artist, because they minimise his powers of self
