The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind