Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
Terence McKennaThe thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.
Terence McKennaWe need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
Terence McKennaThe smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.
Terence McKennaIt is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.
Terence McKenna