[00:00:00 - 00:00:10]	 I wish I had some of that stuff.
[00:00:10 - 00:00:18]	 Well, I was surprised to hear McLuhan invoked so many times today, and I will do it again.
[00:00:18 - 00:00:27]	 McLuhan had an idea of what he called the global village, and the global village is coming to be.
[00:00:27 - 00:00:35]	 This is what the crisis that is being presented to us as a crisis in communism is.
[00:00:35 - 00:00:40]	 It isn't a crisis for communism. Communism is going first.
[00:00:40 - 00:00:46]	 But what it is, is the death knell for centralized structure.
[00:00:46 - 00:00:55]	 [applause]
[00:00:55 - 00:01:03]	 If you think what we've been through in the past year is something, wait till you see what's on the agenda.
[00:01:03 - 00:01:12]	 And I don't mean great CNN feed from Moscow as the Soviet Union turns into 15 independent republics.
[00:01:12 - 00:01:15]	 I mean what's going to happen here.
[00:01:15 - 00:01:31]	 Because what is so terrifying about Gorbachev from the point of view of the powers that be, is that he models a leader who can't say, "We did it wrong."
[00:01:31 - 00:01:43]	 [applause]
[00:01:43 - 00:01:51]	 Baker was on one of the talk shows after one of these "We did it wrong" statements by Gorbachev,
[00:01:51 - 00:02:00]	 and they said to him, "Well, under what circumstances would an official of the United States government admit a mistake?"
[00:02:00 - 00:02:09]	 And he said, "Well, you don't understand. You see, we have collective decision-making apparatus, and hence, we don't make mistakes."
[00:02:09 - 00:02:11]	 [laughter]
[00:02:11 - 00:02:23]	 So I think that to return to McLuhan for a moment, what's happening is, as Gates said in his poem, "The center does not hold.
[00:02:23 - 00:02:26]	 Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."
[00:02:26 - 00:02:35]	 But as fans of chaos, we should know that this mere anarchy is the incarnation of our goddess, Discordia,
[00:02:35 - 00:02:44]	 who is going to pull them behind the structure that is oppressing everybody.
[00:02:44 - 00:02:52]	 What I see happening, and it was touched upon by others here, is this intensification of local identification,
[00:02:52 - 00:03:05]	 bio-regionalism, awareness of your immediate place, and then no hierarchical structure or identification until you reach the planetary level.
[00:03:05 - 00:03:14]	 I live in Sonoma County, and I am a citizen of Earth. I recognize no intermediate structures except when I have them.
[00:03:14 - 00:03:20]	 [applause]
[00:03:20 - 00:03:30]	 So I agree with Tim. I cheer on the people who present the protocols and plead their cases before these great-faced medical boards.
[00:03:30 - 00:03:37]	 But in my opinion, you just circumvent all that. You go around it. It's irrelevant.
[00:03:37 - 00:03:42]	 History has these dominator types by the balls.
[00:03:42 - 00:03:45]	 [laughter]
[00:03:45 - 00:03:51]	 History is a psychedelic experience.
[00:03:51 - 00:03:54]	 [applause]
[00:03:54 - 00:04:00]	 It's the collective unfolding of the dream of our species in space and time.
[00:04:00 - 00:04:08]	 We are at the apex. This is the peak. This is the second hour of the trip.
[00:04:08 - 00:04:31]	 [applause]
[00:04:31 - 00:04:34]	 You're a human mushroom, Terrence!
[00:04:34 - 00:04:36]	 (laughter)
[00:04:36 - 00:04:39]	 (crowd cheering)