"We have to stop CONSUMING our c**ture. We have to CREATE c**ture. DON'T watch TV, DON'T read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your OWN roadshow. The nexus of s***e and time where you are -- NOW -- is the most immediate sector of your universe. And if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered. You're giving it all away to ICONS. Icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that, you want to dress like X or have lips like Y... This is s***-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all c**tural diversion. What is real is you, and your friends, your a**ociations, your highs, your o******, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And, 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 c**tural 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. where is that at?"
-Terence McKenna
-Terence McKenna