Culture Is Your Operating System : Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna and his idea of extropy is explained through the window of opportunity we can call novelty.

One of Terence McKenna's most widely promulgated ideas is known as Novelty theory. It predicts the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. McKenna developed the theory in the mid 1970s after his experiences in the Amazon at La Chorrera led him to closely study the King Wen sequence of the I-Ching. Novelty theory involves ontology, extropy, and eschatology.

The theory proposes that the universe is an engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, or extropy (a term coined by Max More meaning the opposite of entropy). According to McKenna, when novelty is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as "timewave zero" or simply the "timewave" results. The graph shows at what time periods, but never at what locations, novelty increases or decreases.

Considered by some to represent a model of history's most important events, the universal algorithm has also been extrapolated to be a model for future events. McKenna admitted to the expectation of a "singularity of novelty", and that he and his colleagues projected many hundreds of years into the future to find when this singularity (runaway "newness" or extropy) could occur. The graph of extropy had many enormous fluctuations over the last 25,000 years, but amazingly, it hit an asymptote at exactly December 22, 2012. In other words, entropy (or habituation) no longer exists after that date. It is impossible to define that state. The technological singularity concept parallels this, only at a date roughly three decades later. According to leading expert Ray Kurzweil), another concept called cultural singularity (essentially cultural dissolution, or language dissolution), parallels this as well. Terence claimed to have no knowledge of the Mayan calendar, which ends one day before the Timewave graph does: December 21, 2012, this is likely to be true as Mckennas timewave theory, also known as "Time Wave Zero", was published in The Invisible Landscape 12 years before the book which brought the Mayan calendar into public consciousness; José Argüelles's The Mayan Factor.

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[Lethargos]

Culture always has a way of correcting, reinventing and adapting itself. With every inevitable fall of an empire, cultural patterns are disrupted. Subcultures emerge, new societies form and the insanity of dangerous cultures is once again reborn. The cultural operating system "bugs" eventually compromise the integrity of it's structural framework and the entire machine eventually crashes to it's sad demise. World history has proven this cyclical self-destructive concept time and time again.

[terencemckenna]

We are part of a quantum field, the expression of life, which has a super objective. Evolution. This is the notion we have. This not only makes it clear, but presents us with choice knowing this. It is the condition of awareness that we know as being human. The real struggle is not that of our humanness, but rather our acceptance of personal power. It is a battle of the natural self and the ego. That is the cycle! Culture is nothing more than a program. It is not principle, it is a description!

[glopur0]

The bugs in the system are RELIGIONS and GOVERNMENTS. Wasting our time and money and killing millions of us off for no gain.

[HigherPlanes]

Grow your own homie. It's easy as pie

[oldscorp]

@brazenhubris capitalism does not defend individualism. it only promotes the idea of individualism in order to separate men from one another and stop them from organizing and thinking outside the box. but when it comes to what capitalism actualy does is incarcerate great amounts of individuals inside a single crowd wich is easy to control and exploit.

[obaidahitto]

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[aStrayforMyTime]

i've been to Alex Grey's museum those paintings are alot bigger in real life

[TheArbiter74]

@enjoypolydor Instead of our cops, mayors, senators, mobsters, and other leaders corn-holeing each other on cocaine, we should put all of these fucks naked in the wilderness under the "right" conditions. Their greedy, low-brow behaviours may subside somewhat, consequentially. We all can dream, I suppose.

[TheArbiter74]

@ajb3016 Justin Beiber is one of the best forms of arsenal that the military industrial-complex has.

[TheArbiter74]

@terencemckenna I find that it is generally wasted energy addressing people that have poor comprehensional skills, which seems to be at least half of the population

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[ajb3016]

NOTICE LESS THAN 20,000 VIEWS> WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT TELL YOU. THE BEST INFO SEEMS TO BE REJECTED. THIS POST IS RECENTLY 3 YEARS OLD AT THIS TIME. WHY DOESNT THIS HAVE MILLIONS OF VIEWS. DERKA USA, Inc. WAKE UP PEOPLE>SOAK THIS UP LIKE A SPONGE.

[enjoypolydor]

I'd say a good 90% of the people that watch this video don't even fully understand it. It's sad. In my honest opinion this is the most important thing anyone can understand.

[killinginthenameof88]

this isn't about me and you, or numbshit two sided politcs, this is about how each and every one of us, down to the last one, is the source of this long decomposed and patched up system, we allow it to exist because we are AFRAID, so we programmed this system THROUGHOUT HISTORY around fear, in our fear we built walls and became complacent, in this we forgot something deeper we all somehow know, but only remember when let go and wipe "reality" off the mind, hence the disasociation inducing drugs

[jogurtkulturaa]

I agree that culture is the biggest enemy to any human