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Terence McKenna: Culture is not your friend

http://www.dedroidify.com http://www.dedroidify.com/vids http://www.dedroidify.com/culture.htm Culture is not your friend, it's an impediment to understanding what's going on. That's why to my mind the word cult and the word culture have a direct relationship to each other. Culture is a cult and if you feel revulsion at the thought of somebody offering to the great carrot, just notice that your own culture is an extremely repressive cult that leads to all kinds of humiliation and degradation, and automatic and unquestioned and unthinking behaviour. I mean the American family is what keeps American psychotherapy alive and well. This is a cauldron for the production of neurosis. Part of what psychedelics do, is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato, since all culture is a kind of congame, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is candy that makes people start questioning the rules of the game. From the lecture: "Into the Valley of Novelty" http://www.dedroidify.com http://www.dedroidify.com/vids http://www.dedroidify.com/culture.htm

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Author: sloeber
Published (on YouTube): 2007-12-28
Published (here): 2012-05-23
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MirrorSymmetry on 2012-04-12
I personaly view ...
I personaly view the human experience as a continuous stream of data rather than just a set of modules, yet that is how culture can be considered (in the context of this vid). At some point all of our endevours, be it art, science, philosophy (or whatever label you want to attach to such disciplines), merge and reduce to each other, forming a continuum! "Culture" masks and perverts this, hence Terence need for a reboot! I may or may not have come to this conclusion after heavy psilocybin use :)

Zwab on 2012-04-12
When McKenna says " ...
When McKenna says "the solution is art," I don't think he means /all/ art, but rather that the way to eliminate the gross mass culture universe we are often forced to live in is through artistic work--effective, deft, well-executed artistic work that brings to life more perfect places to think and live within.

Zwab on 2012-04-12
Sure, yeah--it ...
Sure, yeah--it seems like the kind of culture McKenna is talking about could all be fairly called art, and there is certainly plenty of art that encourages common, icky beliefs. At the same time, just because this capability exists in art doesn't mean it's all it does--good art carves out new paths, demonstrates hidden-but-essential truths, and creates cultural spaces worth living in. I think bad culture is made from bad art and good culture is made from good art. One can displace the other.

dkennell998 on 2012-04-12
Thanks. :) I'm ...
Thanks. :) I'm guessing he meant cultural norms and assumptions. The sort of things we take for granted that keep us from seeing further. At least I hope that's what he meant. If not, -1000 jedi points. Lol.

dkennell998 on 2012-04-12
Hmmm....maybe. How ...
Hmmm....maybe. How do you mean? I always pictured art as a subset of culture.

dkennell998 on 2012-04-12
I SUPPOSE so..... ...
I SUPPOSE so..... but isn't art part of what keeps us ingrained in our habits and beliefs? Not all art is revolutionary. Despite what McKenna and others may have been going for, the counterculture was still a culture. And it's just as easy to be a conformist artist as a conformist businessman.

Zwab on 2012-04-12
I think the people ...
I think the people are cheering because they appreciate what he's saying, the same way people spontaneously cheer for musicians. It seems fair to look at the kind of culture he's talking about as a crude, oppressive genre of mass-distributed art. Creating good art provides an alternative. Often, I think people who buy into the sorts of corporate meme replication streams he discusses do so because they haven't been shown other forms of culture to any significant degree.

Zwab on 2012-04-12
(defs. from ...
(defs. from Merriam-Webster)

Zwab on 2012-04-12
It seems like he's ...
It seems like he's using a more narrow definition of "culture" than you are. I think it would figure to call what he's referring to "mass culture"--"the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life} shared by people in a place or time" v.s. "the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior."

MirrorSymmetry on 2012-04-11
Maybe it's the ...
Maybe it's the term art that you should reevaluate?!

SnafuMatthew on 2012-04-10
I see this all the ...
I see this all the time when a public speaker is speaking truth. People in the audience think the person is speaking cool absurdities to create humor when in reality this public speaking person is speaking the fucking truth. That said, I don't think art is the answer to culture. Cultures use art to recruit, so why does he love art so much?

Avery7098 on 2012-04-09
Check this out he ...
Check this out he makes sense.

GotYourWingsYet on 2012-04-09
this guys right, ...
this guys right, culture is the arts and collective human intellectual achievement. Culture has created the first mass civilizations in egypt, greece, western europe throughout different time periods. Seems that he's saying american culture is controlled by unmoral people and in that case the masses are misled by what is made out to be the culture they are part of. If he didn't mean that, -1000 jedi points

dkennell998 on 2012-04-07
Culture is bad! ...
Culture is bad! Make art! ........ Huh? Have I been misusing the word 'culture' my whole life?

georgiypotulov23 on 2012-04-06
The sad think is, ...
The sad think is, since I have a medical card I go to work high, and it is a tedious job and you talk to prospects on the phone 9 hours a day, I get high for break I get high during lunch break. I have worked there for 3 months and I am currently in the top of my job with raising the most money. And let me tell you, if anything it helps. I am not lazy when it comes to working. If anything I am more focused and relaxed and have a better day as a result.

georgiypotulov23 on 2012-04-06
I think Id go woo ...
I think Id go woo hoo too if I saw Terence in my presence.

georgiypotulov23 on 2012-04-06
They are going woo ...
They are going woo hoo to agree with him. 

thezigzagmon on 2012-04-06
killuminati - we ...
killuminati - we are lead by the secret societies ---- we dont fight back your all chimps. we need people who are smart enough to be embarrased to be human.

1981z28camaro on 2012-04-06
Yeah, and they say ...
Yeah, and they say that if they legalized pot for instance that they would be worried that the workforce would became unproductive, if that's the case, then something like 70% of the population isn't turning out any work.. lol (Yes, I watched The business of getting high) lol

420DRo420ful on 2012-04-06
it's ridiculous, ...
it's ridiculous, but there's still so many irresponsible hippies to rail against

Rosseh1 on 2012-04-06
As much of an ...
As much of an assumption as mine that they are doing nothing.

Rosseh1 on 2012-04-06
Please explain how ...
Please explain how it proves his point?

nhswrestle on 2012-04-05
Yeah dude, all ...
Yeah dude, all three of those individuals are great spokespeople for the hallucinogenic experience. We need more people like them to combat the mass-consumed stereotype of the hallucinogenic user as an irresponsible hippie who doesn't have a job, and listen to Phish all day.

kirbz01 on 2012-04-04
way to be ...
way to be pessimistic. Your comment further proves his point.