About Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
What is Culture Trip?
Pop culture can be empty, vapid, junk food for the mind and soul, but it can also raise awareness of important social issues, start crucial conversations, provoke real change, teach us about the past, and imagine a better future. Culture Trip looks for the TV, movies, music, and books doing just that, with enlightened analysis of pop culture past and present and heartfelt recommendations.
One of the major ways that higher states have infiltrated pop culture is through the psychedelic movement, a major influence in 1960s culture that still reverberates today, and is again growing stronger. Psychedelics are moving toward mainstream acceptance as therapeutic and spiritual tools that have the potential to cure us of some of our deepest modern ills. Moms are microdosing, while veterans have been freed from their PTSD.