«culture is not your friend. It insults you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are treated well by culture. The cultura is a perversion. It fetishizes objects. Endless forms of false happiness....It dehumanizes ourselves into meme processors..By creating art. By putting the art petal to the metal, we really maximize our humanism and become much more necessary and incomprehensible to the machines.»
-Terence McKenna
Psychedelic Society

«Since in any situation 10 percent of the events cause 90 percent, we ignore the 10 percent and are stunned by the 90 percent. Without an anti-environment, all environments are invisible. The role of the artist is to create anti-environments as means of perception and adjustment. Hamlet's sleuth technique for coping with the hidden environment around him was that of an artist: 'As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put on anti disposition on . . .»
(Hamlet, Act I, Scene V)"

«The criminal like the artist is a social explorer.»
—Marshall McLuhan

First excerpt from «culture is our business» (out of print), second
from a lecture i can't track down.

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John Joseph Bachir