History Is A Psychedelic Trip (Maryland 1990)

I wish I had some of that stuff.

Well, I was surprised to hear McLuhan invoke so many times today, and I will do it again.

McLuhan had an idea of what he called the global village, and the global village is coming to be.

This is what the crisis that is being presented to us as a crisis in communism is.

It isn't a crisis for communism.

Communism is going first, but what it is, is the death mill for centralized structure.

For centralized structure.

If you think what we've been through in the past year is something,

wait till you see what's on the agenda.

And I don't mean great CNN feed from Moscow as the Soviet Union turns into 15 independent republics.

I mean what's going to happen here.

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.

When Baker was on one of the talk shows after one of these, we did it wrong, statements by Gorbachev,

and they said to him, well, under what circumstances would an official of the United States government

admit a mistake?

And he said, well, you don't understand, you see.

We have collective decision-making apparatus, and hence, we don't make mistakes.

So, I think that, to return to McLuhan for a moment, what's happening is, as Yeats said in his poem,

the center does not hold.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

But as fans of chaos, we should know that this mere anarchy is the incarnation of our goddess,

Discordia, who is going to pull down.

What I see happening, and it was touched upon by others here, is this intensification of local identification,

bioregionalism, awareness of your immediate place.

And then, no hierarchical structure or identification until you reach the planetary level.

I live in Sonoma County, and I am a citizen of Earth.

I recognize no intermediate structures except when I have them.

So, I agree with Tim.

I cheer on the people who present the protocols and plead their cases before these gray-faced medical boards.

But, in my opinion, you just circumvent all that.

You go around it.

It's irrelevant.

History has these dominator types by the balls.

History, history is a psychedelic experience.

It's unfolding the dream of our species in space and time.

We are at the apex.

This is the peak.

This is the second hour of the trip.

We are going over the top.