Johnny_Rotten wrote:

Now that is a fine idea. Most appealing option since we can't return to the age old method, proven since long before the dawn of history as the least costly method (initially at least) to address such issues; banishment. The physical banishment from the country, society, removal to another land, and cessation of all interactions with the group.

Robert Graves touched on this in his works about the ancient world. I think the Farallon Islands would be ideal, with half rations delivered ever so often to keep it interesting.

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Robert  Graves lived a topsy turvy Poet's life. He was involved with an interesting salon of writers that expanded even when he decamped with his family to Deià in the Balearics.

It is of note that he had a role in kicking off the wildness of the 1960s.

. . . The other great psychedelic pioneer of the 1950s was a J. P. Morgan vice president and amateur mycologist named R. Gordon Wasson. Wasson and his wife had already written a voluminous work on the history of mushroom lore, Russia, Mushrooms, and History (1957) when, apparently through a conversation with the English poet Robert Graves, he found out about the continuing existence of a cult in Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, that used teonanacatl, the vision-inducing mushrooms that Spanish writers had talked of after the conquest of Mexico...

—from Marcus Boon, The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs. Harvard (pp 253-255).

Though he saw this through a poetical archetype, even though the and his friends may have been mistaken in the  human historical application.

Mushrooms, Food of the Gods
- By Robert Graves
AUGUST 1957 ISSUE

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