“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.’”

For the past four years, we have trained ourselves not to laugh at the antics of bad men; our collective embrace of “Tiger King” speaks of a renewed craving for the crass, the politically incorrect, the culturally insensitive—an outlet for the id now that the ego is under siege.

"Using this model will be crucial for truly understanding how psilocybin can rebalance neuropsychiatric disorders such as treatment-resistant depression and addiction," Morten Kringlebach, the study's first author told Inverse.