We are suspended between vagina and grave. It’s all up for grabs. Humour is an admission of ignorance. Ignorance is the precondition for knowledge. In a sense, to take it to a deeper level, magic is a deeper perception than science. Science believes that the world is truly there. It is naïve in its empiricism. Magic knows that world is made of language, that the world is a construct of forceful imagination. The people who don’t know this are walking around inside the realities created by the people who do. Madison Avenue understands this. Government propaganda agencies fully understand this. And to the degree that you empower yourself, you will become more and more a dweller in linguistic constructs of your own making. This is what I meant by do not watch, do not consume. In other words, do not lease other peoples linguistic structures and live in them. Build your own virtual worlds. Build your own values and your own house of mirrors. Then you are on equal footing. But if you are consuming the manufactured linguistic structures; Marxism, Freudianism, Christianity, Keynesian economics, you name it… then you are to a degree giving up your humanness, your uniqueness.”


A good example of what McKenna is talking about is zoologist and ultra-atheist Richard Dawkins. The man with no soul. Pity him. Though be warned that your sympathy may turn to hostility when you realize how much airtime this man gets to peddle his bizarre technocratic fantasies. I like to think that he is actually a replicant, enraged at the discovery that he only has a limited life span and when that comes to an end, it’s all over. So to assuage his anxiety, he promulgates the idea that we’re all in the same boat. We are all just nuts and bolts like him.