Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system

Taken from the show "Light of the 3rd Millennium". Pictures are from among various artists like Alex Grey, Mark Henson and Google. :) Music is Murcof.

White Line Fever

One more string of generic

hotel rooms in the fabric

of my life.

Another tale to tack on

to the miles of stories gone

before it.

Still an old coffee shop,

same as the last one i saw,

a piece back down the road...

So this is why i live,

and this is how i die.

How many people do i

unwillingly make cry...

My road, on and on it goes,

where it ends no one knows.

Back and forth and up and down,

but i'll always be around.

Another hundred thousand or so,

white line fever on

rural roads....

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Terence McKenna: Culture is not your friend

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 behavior.

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 de-condition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato, since all culture is a kind of con game, 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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