Language
This is what I meant—this is a good closure—this is what I meant by “do not watch, do not consume.” In other words, do not lease other people’s linguistic structures and live in them. Build your own virtual worlds, build your own values, and your own house of mirrors. And then you are on equal footing. But if you are consuming the manufactured... See more
Build Your Own Damn Wagon
Schismogenesis, you’ll recall, describes how societies in contact with each other end up joined within a common system of differences, even as they attempt to distinguish themselves from one another.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything
Reminds me of the “narcissism of small differences”
Jacques Ellul, and he wrote a book called The Technological Society, and in There he had an axiom, and the axiom was there are no political solutions, only technological ones.
The rest is propaganda.
loadedshaman • Terence McKenna - The Psychedelic Society
We talk a lot—and I’m sure there are people in this room who are well versed and connected into the world of virtual reality, which is a very hot topic and may have all kinds of implications for our future and the evolution of consciousness—but it’s worth pointing out that we have been making virtual realities for a very, very long time. That... See more
Dreaming Awake at the End of Time
Terence McKenna
The poet proves that language is inadequate by throwing herself at the fence of language and being bound by it.
