c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…a virus has gotten loose that is actually not symbiotic, but ultimately will kill off the host. And we are. I mean, you know, Lenin said when it comes time to hang the capitalists, they'll sell us new rope. And this is true. Lenin's gone, but we are…
…we're trying to get them to change their language. The bad people have always understood this very clearly it's called propaganda. You know, Lenin said: give me the child at age seven and I will return you the man, because this seems to be how it works.…
…revised in real time, constantly held up to the incoming flow of data and adjusted. That's why the concept model is somewhat you know if Lenin had said he had a model, if Hitler had said he had a model I think it would have played out with a little…
…institutions are not necessarily servants of the human agenda. And I think I said to somebody during the break last night I quoted Lenin who said when it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will sell us new rope. I feel like we're just willing to…
…and a general sensitivity to human suffering generally are all inexorably linked together and are in opposition to an ideology you know. Lenin said when it comes time to hang the capitalists they'll sell us new rope. He was right and now there are no…
…reflection of ourselves if any at all. So you know, in Hawaii sitting on the mountainside you think that you are like Lenin in Germany or something and you have to politically think it all through so that to whatever degree one's voice is heard,…
…with this realization and up to a half an hour ago I had this vision of myself returning triumphantly to Berkeley like Lenin entering Moscow with the tone raised high, don't worry, brothers and sisters it's all figured out and I realized you know that…
…we're trying to get them to change their language. The bad people have always understood this very clearly it's called propaganda. You know, Lenin said: give me the child at age seven and I will return you the man because this seems to be how it works.…
…I would wander maybe in other directions but every prophet is the captive of his earliest ideological expression. You know I mean Lenin Couldn't do much about leninism once it had passed a certain point. So umm, in hearing what people's interests were and…