Which he solves by consuming magic mushrooms. I’ve got no problem with that per se, but not everything the mushrooms tell you is true. It’s also a bit hypocritical.
The message, here, is sound. Regardless of what you think of the source, it’s pretty clear that the economic demand (more an economic hostage situation than anything else) for 8 billion humans to consume is as follows:
accept money as your Lord, God, and personal saviour
disregard the rest of Creation as anything other than a series of resources and means to your own individual ends; Creation is never an end itself.
exchange your time for an agreed upon sum
disregard all those who can’t work (disability), don’t work (on both ends of the economic spectrum), or won’t work (thelazy, underemployed, and children) as leeches on the economy
claim resources from Creation using money
disregard that the total resources exchanged for money exceed global sustainability by a whole planet per year
repeat
disregard every other feasible, practicable, or available competitive method of economic organisation as heresy — no matter where or when they are offered.
In the end, those mushrooms consumed him right back to his constituent elements. All’s fair in the the carbon cycle — except digging up 400My old fossil fuels and dumping ancient CO2 back into the atmosphere. That’s off-side. Which, I might add, is what he’s talking about.
To say that McKenna’s criticism of consumption means that his consumption — in all its forms — is hypocritical is idiotic to the point of being asinine. Hopefully, that’s not what you meant. At the same time, in this discursive age, it seems that’s exactly what is meant when criticising capitalism, consumption, or modern economies. They are inescapably pervasive, insidiously seductive, and self-reinforcing.
Which he solves by consuming magic mushrooms. I’ve got no problem with that per se, but not everything the mushrooms tell you is true. It’s also a bit hypocritical.
The message, here, is sound. Regardless of what you think of the source, it’s pretty clear that the economic demand (more an economic hostage situation than anything else) for 8 billion humans to consume is as follows:
accept money as your Lord, God, and personal saviour
disregard the rest of Creation as anything other than a series of resources and means to your own individual ends; Creation is never an end itself.
exchange your time for an agreed upon sum
disregard all those who can’t work (disability), don’t work (on both ends of the economic spectrum), or won’t work (thelazy, underemployed, and children) as leeches on the economy
claim resources from Creation using money
disregard that the total resources exchanged for money exceed global sustainability by a whole planet per year
repeat
disregard every other feasible, practicable, or available competitive method of economic organisation as heresy — no matter where or when they are offered.
In the end, those mushrooms consumed him right back to his constituent elements. All’s fair in the the carbon cycle — except digging up 400My old fossil fuels and dumping ancient CO2 back into the atmosphere. That’s off-side. Which, I might add, is what he’s talking about.
To say that McKenna’s criticism of consumption means that his consumption — in all its forms — is hypocritical is idiotic to the point of being asinine. Hopefully, that’s not what you meant. At the same time, in this discursive age, it seems that’s exactly what is meant when criticising capitalism, consumption, or modern economies. They are inescapably pervasive, insidiously seductive, and self-reinforcing.