Terence McKenna: Culture is not your friend

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Culture is not your friend, it's an impediment to understanding what's going on. That's why to my mind the word cult and the word culture have a direct relationship to each other. Culture is a cult and if you feel revulsion at the thought of somebody offering to the great carrot, just notice that your own culture is an extremely repressive cult that leads to all kinds of humiliation and degradation, and automatic and unquestioned and unthinking behaviour.

I mean the American family is what keeps American psychotherapy alive and well. This is a cauldron for the production of neurosis.

Part of what psychedelics do, is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato, since all culture is a kind of congame, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is candy that makes people start questioning the rules of the game.

From the lecture: "Into the Valley of Novelty"

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[slangshotstudios]

I watch this video, watch and listen to him speak in thoughtful, meditative silence. These drunken buffoons in the crowd cheer and laugh as he speaks as if they were watching a fucking stand-up routine.

[daisQ]

I made a new lane for myself and said 'fuck it'

why rage against the machine, when you can just unplug it?

[LittleBitOfSunshine1]

There are realities and reality tunnels, to construct ones reality in causality will project your consciousness into the future designed by the now. In such a way it is important that the artist stray not from the desirable mainframe but embrace with open arms the mystery of unknowing...

[caessarion]

@daisQ i wanna plug u

[caessarion]

@slangshotstudios "they" are THE "they" Do you really think the elite are "they"? ha U like art?, is ur life art? Toiling in the culture is neanderthalic, but not toiling in the mud. The mud is a good place.

[kajinsou]

Its truly a wondrous time when a human being doesn't just recognize universal truths, but has the capacity to articulate them clearly. It doesn't take psychedelic drugs to comprehend the message, only a broad perspective; Something which unknowledgeable minds have difficulty utilizing. Politics and Economics are the two governing bodies of society, and yet the majority of citizens do not understand the mechanics nor the effect. Research a "Resource Based Economy" /watch?v=4mkRFCtl2MI

[VEVONot]

RON PAUL 2012

[Rob02150]

How'd I end up here?

[MrRyans777]

yeah... i used to be a christian...but fuck it. im going to start awakening my mind and shedding my operating system through an interaction of symbiosis of relationship with local plants

[mattwillsize]

i think he's right about all of it except about culture. durkheim would argue that religion is society and i'd say that culture is in essence religious. i'm only for anarchy when corruption has seeded all facets of our cultural institutions; but, i don't believe that one can throw off one's own skin without in a sense (or literally for that matter) dying of exposure to the ironically decadent nature of existence as it is. people just need cultural AUTONOMY. that's it. no war. no inequality.peace

[Rael0505]

@techfate lol what? I don't have to put terence on my shoulders to agree with what he's saying. and I agree that nothing will happen on 2012. it doesn't change what he's talking about in this video.

[ThesePeopleSuck]

@slangshotstudios But your right their voices are fucking annoying