I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?

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.

Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.

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