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Our latest Opinions piece comes from Dennis Walker, a content producer and founder of Mycopreneur. Walker has recently transitioned from interviewing the CEOs of publicly-traded psychedelics companies to becoming one of the most popular satirists of the ‘psychedelic renaissance’.
Since he started the Mycopreneur podcast back in January 2021, Walker’s outlook on the space—and the type of content he produces—has morphed quite substantially. Earlier this year his content began leaning more heavily on satirical skits that sought to highlight contentious topics within the psychedelics ‘space’ such as cultural appropriation, tokenism, and whether the psychedelics industry is a genuine departure from ‘business as usual’.
Walker sees humour as a tool to help us broach these uncomfortable conversations and imbue a level of nuance into controversy: “satire weds wit with moral concern”, he writes.
Walker believes that some elements of the psychedelic community, especially the psychedelics sector which we cover so extensively here at Psychedelic Alpha, takes itself too seriously.
We agree, and in an attempt to lead by example, we asked Dennis to satirise Psychedelic Alpha...
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