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Isn't it spectacular - this explosion of autumnal joy
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My thoughts on the following quote: I think it is extremely important for us to be aware of how media flavors our attitudes and desires. I find McKenna's words (quote below) an exhortation to be aware and create my own culture and be the true me without the added flavor and influences of what "the cultural engineers" want me to think, desire, and feel.
~AOM
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“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about... some famous ... celebrity or politician ... or somebody else, then you are dis-empowered, 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 shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural 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.”
~Terence McKenna