Tim Robbins

“If the first thing you're doing is doomscrolling about something that will make you feel better about your political beliefs, you know, you might try a little yoga, or you might try a little exercise or take a bike ride.”

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Robbins suggested alternatives to doomscrolling like yoga, exercise, or bike rides.

“They tell you to go in with an intention,”

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Robbins described entering his ayahuasca experience with an intention, discussed during an appearance on 'The Joe Rogan Experience.'

“I got to say, there got to be better ideas and better, you know, better motivation for people to vote for Democrats. They have to get their stuff together. They really do.”

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Robbins argued Democrats need better ideas and motivation to win voters.

“I personally am not a happy guy with either [party],”

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Robbins criticized both political parties during an appearance on the 'SmartLess' podcast.

“The idea that you can find your worth and purpose and virtue by hatred is this terrible, terrible idea,”

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Robbins argued that finding purpose through hatred is a harmful idea.

“The idea that if the source of your hatred is a particular person you don't know, it's even a worse idea. You're battling a concept or an idea or a philosophy. You're not dealing with an individual.”

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Robbins continued his point about the dangers of directing hatred at individuals rather than ideas.

“Yeah. Yes. It's weird,”

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Robbins reflected on how his 1992 film 'Bob Roberts' has taken on new resonance in today's political climate.

“My intention was to … I was frustrated with feeling anger about what was going on in the world, and I said, 'I want to release that. I don't want to be consumed by that anger.'”

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Robbins explained his intention going into the ayahuasca experience was to release his frustration and anger about the world.

“So I feel like there's too many people that wake up agitated about political figures … on either side and it's not a good way to start your day.”

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Robbins said the phenomenon of political outrage isn't confined to one side of the political aisle.

“I said, 'Well yeah, he's actually in the film. You know, there's clips of him in the film, but it also could be about, you know, the Gore Vidal character, too. It could be about why change doesn't happen.’”

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Robbins recalled how he answered journalists' questions about whether 'Bob Roberts' was about then-President George H.W. Bush.