Beautiful article. This is kind of the antidote to the more cynical side of things that you see in posts such as, say, Meditations On Moloch (neither is wrong, I think, but there is more to humanity than either alone).

I don't think Moloch means there are no random acts of kindness (not sure if that's what you meant).

Yeah the mushrooms are obviously an amnestic that lets you see the elves which are usually antimimetically cloaked.