What Happens When a Billionaire Mixes Drugs with Far-Right Ideology?
Psychedelics and dissociative drugs–like mushrooms, MDMA, and ketamine–can open profound windows into emotional healing, spiritual insight, and nervous system recalibration. But those windows are just that: openings. What enters during those periods of heightened openness can either promote integration or deepen fragmentation. From an Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) perspective, what matters most is not the chemical itself, but the context–relational, psychological, cultural, and somatic–in which that experience unfolds.
So what happens when the person entering that state is a billionaire with unchecked power, few relational constraints, and a worldview steeped in grievance, dominance, or delusion?
These substances increase neuroplasticity. They temporarily lower defensive barriers, disrupt rigid patterns, and make the nervous system more malleable. That can be healing in the presence of safety, truth, and mutual care. But without grounding relationships or self-reflection, it doesn’t produce humility, but intensity. And when that intensity is paired with far-right ideology, the result isn’t clarity or transcendence. It’s weaponized distortion.
The risks are amplified in the case of someone like Elon Musk, who controls major communication platforms, shapes technological futures, and influences global discourse. He’s not just a person undergoing an altered state. He’s a node in a massive social nervous system. And when his regulation is off, it dysregulates others. What he experiences as “visionary” can ripple outward as misinformation, cruelty, or chaos.
Far-right ideology thrives on disconnection, creating “us vs. them” dynamics, manufacturing threat, and glorifying control. If you take that mindset into an altered state, the nervous system may interpret it not as a belief, but as a revelation. The feeling of being right, chosen, transcendent, or above others becomes embodied. And because there’s no one in the room brave enough to say, “That’s not truth, that’s trauma,” it goes unchecked.
Substances don’t make someone wise. They don’t build relational capacity. They don’t heal in a vacuum. They amplify what’s already present, and they expose the nervous system to deeper influence. So if that influence is rooted in fear, isolation, entitlement, or ideology masquerading as insight, the outcome is magnified harm. Especially when the person emerging from that trip has the power to reshape social reality.
It is important to name the relational and neurobiological responsibility required to use psychedelics wisely. It’s about asking what kind of ecosystem surrounds the person using them, and whether that ecosystem includes truth, humility, care, and mutual regulation. Because when it doesn’t, the altered state may feel like transcendence to the individual, but to the collective, it’s a disaster.
