Transformation to the Stars (feat. Terence McKenna)

You know, a really common, ordinary way to describe

The times that we're living in is that they're very

Very chaotic, filled with acts of unspeakable evil

And at the same time, there's this sort of buzz

And thrust of optimism, everything from a guy

Like Peter Schwartz talking about the long wave

The booming economy, breakthroughs in educational levels

Qualities of life, but it's definitely a dynamic

Where you've got extremes of good and evil

In that way. Would you talk a little bit about

The relationship between that dynamic as we

Go forward and the novelty continues to come back?

Well, novelty is not necessarily good

Or nice

Novelty is complex

That what it is

And so I see really a concatenation of tendencies

And forces here at the end

It's only going to get weirder

The level of contradiction is going to rise excruciatingly

And finally, it's going to be so weird that people

Are going to have to talk about how weird it is

Because eventually people are going to say

What the hell is going on?

It's just too nuts

I look for the invention of artificial life

The cloning of human beings, possible contact with extraterrestrials

Possible human immortality, and at the same time

Appalling acts of brutality, genocide, race bathing

Homophobia, famine, starvation

Because these systems which are in place to keep

The world sane are utterly inadequate

Can we stop making it horrible for the kids

The collapse of the socialist world the rise of the internet

These are changes so immense

Nobody could imagine them ever happening

And now that they have happened

Nobody even bothers to mention what a big deal it is

The fact that there is no such thing as the Soviet Union

People never talk about it anymore

But when I was a kid, the notion that that

Would ever change was beyond conceiving

So the good news is that as primates, we're incredibly adaptable

These are going to be tested to the limits

The mushroom said to me once, it said

This is what it like when a species prepares

To depart for the stars

You don't depart for the stars under calm

And orderly conditions It a fire in the madhouse

And that what we have the fire in the madhouse at the end of time

This is what it's like when a species prepares to move

On to the next dimension

The entire destiny

Of all life on the planet is tied up in this

We happen to be the point of species on a transformation

That will affect every living organism on this planet