Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
TERENCE MCKENNAWhen you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Reality is made of words.
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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