Ask Terence McKenna

...nt of hope. A-a hard-core anti-capitalist position wants to eliminate capitalism because it sees it as an irreclaimable evil. But it’s possible that t...

...we have to recognize in the wake of the collapse of communism is that capitalism as well is a system with a fatal flaw that is set against human natur...

...ism and it's studious and the institutions which feed us, feed it. If capitalism is an interesting problem more easily discussed now than the communis...

...world aspirations. All of these problems are population problems. And capitalism doesn't want to talk about it because capitalism is not a human being...

...ecial poignancy because the official philosophy of our civilization – capitalism, materialism, reductionism; I guess that’s it, maybe misogyny is in t...

.... We have to mix it up. Ideas dictated out of the agenda of washed-up capitalism and science and religion is simply insufficient. Reason has failed. H...

...logies have always been very natural. Machines are central to the new capitalism, the information-transforming technologies, but in fact, one of the s...

...you need to know to do something. It’s the only kind of economy where capitalism has a future, unless something quite radical happens, because one of ...

...we have to get a hold of this monster we've unleashed called consumer capitalism. We all have become thing addicted. Uh we all have become uh victims ...

.... Well, what’s wrong with the operating system that we have? Consumer capitalism 5.0 or whatever it is. Well, it’s dumb! It’s retro, it’s very non-com...

...selves, in terms of the kind of beauty we create. We can see from how capitalism manipulates the commodification of ideas, that what it tends to do is...

...l. And so they promote a larger sense of the world than the values of capitalism, [0:48:30] competitiveness, object fetishism, property acquisition an...

...he people within their family structure. And, uh, it’s an artifact of capitalism. It does not serve human needs; it serves the needs of the engines of...

...ell. Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations stated the general theory of capitalism, and the general theory of capitalism is; uh, access to cheap labor a...

...l and economic systems that we’ve put in place, specifically consumer capitalism, drive us to do all the things that bring the AI closer. What do I me...

...sses designed to make sure that does not happen. You know – rapacious capitalism, technological innovation, bourgeois social aspirations in the hearts...

...nce of immediate experience. This is what has been stolen from you by capitalism, by religion, by linear thinking, by strategizing. We're always about...

...f the abuses and scams that were being run by late modernism and, uh, capitalism. Luc: Clear! Thank you, Terence. Terence: Thank you. [laughs]...

...o manage this rationally with some political ‘ism’; fascism, Marxism, capitalism, goes nowhere. It just digs us deeper into the mire and the muck. At ...

...ur rope! Reason, and, uh, science, and, uh, the practice of unbridled capitalism, have not delivered us into an angelic realm. Quite the contrary: the...

...to support the agenda of the industrial revolution which means global capitalism. They have nothing to do with archaic values which are enormous famil...

...sm was a kind of partner in a co-dependent relationship with consumer capitalism. And, maybe revolution is just going to become something that everybo...

... of the five or six richest areas on the planet. As if the inroads of capitalism and Maoist politics were not enough, you’re also going to get a bunch...

... that isn't really it, the untrammeled permission which we have given capitalism to cheapen our values, is not what the notion 'The Pursuit of Happine...

...areness or social, uh, conscience about the fact that the presence of capitalism in the Amazon is totally disrupting tribal human culture. So these pe...

...ing that has broken about nuclear winter is very interesting. But uh, capitalism is very interested in making money. A decimated earth is not good rea...

...s of the tribe, if you're a devoted practitioner of Marxism, fascism, capitalism; I don't think these things will lead you to the moral life, because ...

...s mix of medieval remnants in the, uh, religious department, gangster capitalism in the economic department, uh, s- stasis-seeking Marxism as a counte...

...hey aren’t working, and the cultures that we have conquered with, uh, capitalism and, uh, technology; we have repressed their connection into these in...

...d. It has a connotation now because it’s so associated with rapacious capitalism, but all management means is paying attention to the details that mus...