Its been very fashionable in the past 50 years to think its all humdrum; yet every ideological system that has been granted the status of being the official view of reality has always proclaimed that it had everything nailed down but the last 5 percent. Their best people were working on that. But I think that we know practically nothing. Though I am not in most senses religious, I think that religious thinking about the transformation of the world is more on the right track then the notion that the laws of physics will always be what they are, the laws of biology will always be what they are, and we are all going to go along and things are going to get worse, or better and better, but there are no surprises. I think we do not see whats going on. We need to start seeing differently, and if things can be seen that differently, how many ways can they be seen differently? Try to get people to stop waiting for the president to enlighten them. Stop waiting for history and the stream of historical events to make itself clear to you. You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is YOUR responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to You is your own understanding. It doesnt do you no good to know that someone somewhere in some computer there are equations that perfectly model or perfectly dont model something that is going on. We have all tended to give ourselves away to official ideologies and to say ,Well I may not understand, but someone understands. The fact of the matter is that only your own understanding is any good to you. Because its you that youre going to have to live with and its you that youre going to die with. As the song says, the last dance you dance, you dance alone. Terence McKenna 1991
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:26:13 +0000
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