Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
Terence McKennaStanding outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.
Terence McKennaIn a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
Terence McKennaTelevision, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
Terence McKennaWe do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
Terence McKenna