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Opening with a description of an 11-hour trip on a highly obscure psychedelic research chemical and passing through esoteric alchemy, anarcho-homicidalism, cyberpunk, evolutionary psychology, Aleister Crowley and the symbiotic relationship between humans and cats, this book contains some of the best short-form literary entertainment published in New Zealand during 2017. Comprised of the 64 most popular essays or articles published on www.vjmpublishing.nz during the year of 2017, this book asks the hard questions that the mainstream media is too gutless to. Should we lower women's pensions to make up for the fact that they live longer than men? Could Amelia Kerr play for the Black Caps? How cyberpunk did the world become? Is it time to ban male infant genital mutilation? Should we automatically grant refugee status to white South Africans? And is New Zealand the worst country on Earth? Best of VJMP 2017 takes on those subjects that people only talk about in trusted, intimate company. Essay subjects include: - Trip Report: 35mg 2C-B-FLY (Doors of Deception)- Stockholm Syndrome and Modern Society- Should We Lower Women's Pensions to Bridge The "Gender Death Gap"?- Is It Time to Ban Male Infant Genital Mutilation?- Toxic Femininity- We Don't Need a Cannabis Referendum - Just Legalise It- The Boringest T20I Is Worse Than The Boringest ODI- Tall Poppy Syndrome Is A Slave Morality- The Life Cycle of Internet Forums- Blade Runner 2049 Shows That Cyberpunk Will Live Forever- Why Christianity Will Destroy The West (Again)- Freethinkers! It's Time to Pull Back to the Secret Societies Again...- Are We Living In The Kali Yuga?- Beneficiaries Are The Only True Environmentalists- Alt-Centrism: A Political Philosophy Whose Time Has Come- Social Justice Warrior Culture Is The Totalitarianism of Our Age- If Materialism Is False, Death Is Nothing To Fear- The Basics of Anarcho-Homicidalist Etiquette- The Two Strains of Neo-Christianity- Cannabis and Alcohol Users Must Unite Against th