The reality which is pretending be reality right now, impersonating reality, is just a pretty flimsy structure. There is not a lot of substance to it. You can't find people who are actively involved of affected by it. What you see is a completely different world, what you see is the world of the homeless, and so forth.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs.

This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.