Kate Berlant has a recent standup comedy special on HBO where she says that she did a therapeutic magic mushrooms session with like a guide and she thought she was gonna peel back the layers of her ego and see who she really was while tripping but she ended up just talking about the TV show Succession for hours while crying.

Such a funny concept to be like, dang this is it? no hidden knowledge or epiphanies about enlightenment? Can’t even pretend that the weird shapes you saw in the bushes were significant messages from the cosmos?

Its kind of the other way around, but it reminds me of the D&D handbook version where they scrapped the name “mage” and instead went with “wizard” but were lazy about the find and replace process, so you had weapons doing “1d6 piercing dawizard” on a successful hit.