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Terence McKenna Culture is NOT Your Friend
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Terence McKenna from “Psychedelics in the Age of Intelligent Machines.”
There was no intention at the time to make this recording available to the public. At the time no one knew that Terence McKenna was soon to become seriously ill. This would be his last public appearance.
But in many ways Terence McKenna’s final public conversation in Seattle has become truer today than in 1999. The leaders presented to us by mainstream media have become even more so the least among us.
Create art.
Grow past the limitations of a meme-processing unit.
Create your own symbols or be controlled by others.
A meme, (rhymes with gene), comprises a unit of cultural information. It propagates from one mind to another the way a gene propagates from one organism to another.
Hollywood and Madison Avenue, both controlled by the same corporate interests, generate endless streams of mindless empty content designed to fill your head up and permit no further meaningful thought.
Countless conversations today consist only of passing fragments of this meaningless mindless empty content back and forth.
And the Internet is no better.
The most popular blogs focus on celebrity gossip or cleverly repeat the advertising messages for the latest gadgets. Memes generated to serve corporate interests propagate through every medium until they become ubiquitous.
And this stuff fills people’s heads.
The only alternative becomes to become the alternative.
You become the alternative by becoming creative and making art.
Make your own symbols to express in your own language your own ideas. Then it does not matter if they become repeated or not because you have moved on.
Greatness lays in speaking your own language expressing your uniquely personal ideas.
Each of us deserves greatness.
In this way each of us becomes necessary because we become incomprehensible to the machines. The alternative to become another replaceable meme-processing unit serves only the machines.
The end of the last line drowned out by the applause is, “maximize our humanness and become much more necessary, and incomprehensible to the machines.”
Tags: Appropriate Technology, Arts, Environment, Peace
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