Terence McKenna Clip
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oh yes this is it this is it this is amazing i love this first of all i just love his voice had a guy the best voice is going to rise excruciatingly even beyond the excruciating present levels of contradiction so uh i think it's just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder and finally it's going to be so weird
that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is.
And at that point, novelty theory can come out of the woods, because eventually people are going to say, what the hell is going on?
It's just too nuts.
It's not enough to say it's nuts.
You have to explain why it's so nuts.
I look for the invention of artificial life, the cloning of human beings, the possible contact with extraterrestrials.
possible human immortality and at the same time appalling acts of brutality genocide race-baiting homophobia famine starvation because the systems which are in place to keep the world
saying are utterly inadequate to the forces that have been unleashed.
The collapse of the socialist world, the rise of the internet, these are changes so immense, nobody could imagine them ever happening.
And now that they have happened, nobody even bothers to mention what a big deal it is.
the mushroom said to me once it said this is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for the stars you don't depart for the stars under calm and orderly conditions it's a fire in a madhouse
and that's what we have the fire in the madhouse at the end of time this is what it's like when a species prepares to move on to the next dimension the entire destiny of all life on the planet is tied up in this we are not acting for ourselves or from ourselves we are we happen to be the point species on a transformation that will affect every
living organism on this planet at its conclusion.