c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…point? No we've reached the time to open it up. Terence, you sound to me like a psychedelic version of Karl Marx. Well Marx was the last great millenarian theoretician in western civilization, that's right. He was convinced that history was the result…
…we've reached the time to open it up. Terence, you sound to me like a psychedelic version of Karl Marx. Well Marx was the last great millenarian theoretician in western civilization, that's right. He was convinced that history was the result of interplay…
…humans developing in this mode. You see when Hegel showed the dialectical development of thought, it was a fairly obvious idea that Marx and others took up of thinking of a kind of evolutionary development of matter as well, in other words seeing the…
…otherwise known as feelings and mathematics. And mathematics is something that most of you have been denied in order to keep you Marx. So all you have are feelings. And so it's very important to empower this dimension which Husserl or Merleau Ponty or…
…say, no, no, you don't understand. Not for us. We have the godlike technology. It's a commercial thing. We can sell it to the Marx, and they can word process with it or something. And so it came to be. But then they didn't understand that these things,…
…resold, that's us, since we've been diesel. That's what we've got to get. See, there is no percentage now in educating us because as Marx, which is what we all are, we are easier to manipulate, easier to fleece. You know, it's easier to get an idiot to…
…between dinosaurs and a more ecologically recycle minded kind of mentality. I'm not a Marxist, but I know enough of Marx to know that in classical capitalistic theory you can't have capitalism unless you have unlimited, exploitable natural resources. And you…
…DMT is it's furiously active. It's like a bugs bunny cartoon run at double speed. I mean, there's just all this zany stuff, this Marx brothers kind of humor going on. And this is a thing about these elf creatures. They're into a kind of humor that is…
…have to accept that. There is also this pile driver aspect. Oh, and another thing about Terence's lack of emotion in, quote Marx, he is clearly a passionate speaker, and at the heart of this particular talk is his longing to believe that humanity matters.…
…other objects into existence. And there is this aura. The word zany comes to mind. It's like a Max Sennett comedy or a Marx Brothers cartoon. I mean, it's a land of explosions and falling anvils and surprises are popping out of everywhere and you're just…
…modelers look at human history. They have for a long, long time. Herodotus had a theory of history. Hesiod had a theory of history. Marx, Vico, so forth. I think what moves me to talk about this, this evening is the fact that the world just seems quite…
…emotion running around. It's like, I don't know. Did you ever see the film hell's a Poppin it was a thirties deal or Marx Brothers cartoon, Marx Brothers routine or a Max senate comedy. It's sort of like a bugs bunny cartoon run backwards at high…
…It's like, I don't know. Did you ever see the film hell's a Poppin it was a thirties deal or Marx Brothers cartoon, Marx Brothers routine or a Max senate comedy. It's sort of like a bugs bunny cartoon run backwards at high supersonic speed. There's all…