Culture is an operating system
posted by ElliLoves | July 15, 2010
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Icerocket"Culture IS an operating system. That's all it is. and that the operating system can be wiped out and replaced by something else. So in essentially what's going on among shamans and those who resort to them for curing and council-ing and so forth... is someone's running a slightly more advanced operating system than the customer. The shaman is in possession of certain facts, about plants, about animals, about healing, about human psychology, about the local geology, about mojo of many different sorts! that the client is not aware of. the client is running culture light. the shaman paid for the registered and licensed version of the software and is running a much heavier version of the software, than the client. I think we should all aspire to make this upgrade.
Well what's wrong with the operating system that we have?? Consumer capitalism 5.0 or whatever it is... Well, it's dumb! It's retro, it's very non-competitive. it's messy, it wastes the environment, it wastes human resources, it's inefficient, it runs on stereo types, it runs on a low sampling rate, which is what creates stereotypes; low sample rates make everybody's appear alike when in fact the glory is in everyone's differences. And the current operating system is flawed, it's actually has bugs in it. that generates contradictions, contradictions such as we're cutting the earth from below our own feet we're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. this is not intelligence behavior, this is a culture with a bug in its operating system that's making it produce erratic, malfunctional behavior."
-Terence Mckenna
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Like Timothy
— Jul 15, 2010
In a very real way he is ! Like Timothy Leary, he is not dead, he's on the outside looking in !
" A rising tide - drowns those without boats " - Cee Are
advocates
— Jul 15, 2010
Both Terence and Timothy were pretty much advocates of psychedelics because they experienced something unearthly with them, something cosmic, something more sensible, something forcefully controlling the system/culture in which we live. They BOTH MAY BE reincarnated by now :}} and/OR still teaching wisdom through the words they left for us... it's really up to us to show and tell, create and connect with the wisdom we have gained! Of course an overuse of psychedelics can make you feel alienated/disconnected from others, perhaps even extremely cynical about EVERYTHING in our daily lives, but taking responsibility is SO CRUCIAL. Wouldn't it be nice if more humans CONSCIOUSLY understood at least THIS MUCH?
Through the creative/the divine, we can show our SOULS...
art, music, dance, any creative form.
And if you haunt Evolver you
— Jul 15, 2010
And if you haunt Evolver you may be running a variation of it's cultural operating system.
"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."
gotta love synchronicities
— Jul 18, 2010
JUST saw his video with the same title on youtube before running into this :)
been meditating on this
— Jul 18, 2010
been meditating on this concept a lot lately having recently moved to a new country. to what extent are we bound by our language, shaped by our culture? in a twist of synchronicity, earlier today I was listening to alan watts compare the process of enculturation, with salted meat! watts, called this process a necessary evil. the meat (child) is initiated into a culture (salted) to make it more manageable (keep it from going bad) but the cultural programming has to be shed (the meat soaked and salt content reduced) before the person can become individuated... kind of a goofy metaphor but i thought it was interesting how that snippet from a watts lecture synced with this post. ;)
