28/11/2020
If we don’t get a hold of ourselves the next century, most of the world is going to be a toxic desert, and then here and there there will be very well-defended pleasure domes in which a very small number of incredibly wealthy people will live out lives of utterly self-indulgent, hedonistic fantasy in denial of the moral catastrophe that they participated in in order to achieve that hedonic state of isolation.
We have to teach people to care for each other as the primary value. We have to have community. We now have a free-for-all where the most brutal among us rise to the top and everybody else has a foot on their neck.
- Terrance McKenna, Earth Trust Lecture Series
https://youtu.be/ErCxNyrjMEI?t=700