Terence Mckenna 1 'Alien Dreamtime' [Feb-93]
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The Archaic Revival
History is ending, because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable chaos-trophy approaches, people look for metaphors and answers, every time a culture gets into trouble, it casts itself back into the past, looking for the last sane moment it ever knew and the last sane moment we ever knew was on the plains of Africa!
15.000 years ago rocked in the cradle of the Great Horned Mushroom Godess before history.
Before standing armies, before slavery and property, before warfare and phonetic alphabets and monotheism before, before, before...
And this is where the future is taking us, because the secret fate of the 20th century is not modernism, the secret fate of the 20th century is nostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the paleolithic, and that gives us body-piercings, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rock-n-roll and catastrophy-theory.
The Archaic Revival
History is ending, because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable chaos-trophy approaches, people look for metaphors and answers, every time a culture gets into trouble, it casts itself back into the past, looking for the last sane moment it ever knew and the last sane moment we ever knew was on the plains of Africa!
15.000 years ago rocked in the cradle of the Great Horned Mushroom Godess before history.
Before standing armies, before slavery and property, before warfare and phonetic alphabets and monotheism before, before, before...
And this is where the future is taking us, because the secret fate of the 20th century is not modernism, the secret fate of the 20th century is nostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the paleolithic, and that gives us body-piercings, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rock-n-roll and catastrophy-theory.