But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.