10,000 years of bad behavior

[mnaz]

"a crisis of two things
consciousness, conditioning
two things that psychedelics attack

we have the techno-power
the skills to save our planet
to cure disease, feed the hungry
to end war

but we lack vision
the ability to change our minds
to decondition ourselves
from ten thousand years
of bad behavior"

(quoted and condensed from terence mckenna's 'this world... and its double')

[judih]

one little switch, one little chance to think 'clean'
it seems so very possible!

[jimboloco]

not so long ago did this start
more like 5500 years ago we
started to suck, which is why
the Bible was born, out of
recitations with an angel
to a holy man or woman,
with the creation story, adam and eve,
the fall of man from grace, all came
from Gabriel and higher Wisdom Mind.
holy weed just like the Koran
straight recitation from above
don't look a gift horse in the mouth

[short timer]

I think you are on to something jimbo
I was just reading something about that the other day
it all started on October 14 at one pm about six thousand years ago.

I would say that ten thousand years of bad behavior is an underestimate.

I think it goes back at least five hundred million years to the origin of life. Life has been behaving badly from the git go.

imho

[stilltrucking]

just being one of those jerks today mnaz
I guess
that was interesting poem
interesting little tid bit

just my first reaction thinking something in a novel called The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy a trillogy in five parts.

yes one little switch
one little button
ain't enculturation a bitch
just one generation
thats all j
all it would take
but we are born into this extrobiological womb
it could change in one generation
cultural evolution
but our biology could do us in

meanwhile babies are born everyday in refugee camps

[mnaz]

thanks jimbo. thanks jack. just something that grabbed me right in my googlin'... just a shorter version of his words, true to his quote. I think it ties in with his "stoned ape evolution theory." I wrote a little blurb on that a while ago....

http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtop ... ape+theory

[revolutionrabbit]

been talking a lot about Terence Mckenna latley, on RealitySandwich.

he is a poetic inspiration to me, also

somebody wrote a book that says humans are messed up
because of chemical changes that happened in the brain
because of diet, Terence was more interested in the mushroom diet.

[happytrails]

A haiku in keeping with your idea.


on this planet, earth
we are parasites, feeding
till we kill the host

[Arcadia]

but we lack vision
the ability to change our minds
to decondition ourselves
from ten thousand years
of bad behavior"

mmm... I like McKenna, but I don´t know...! gracias for the poem!

[mnaz]

thanks revolution, happytrails, arcadia. he was into shrooms, so he's not to be trusted... especially not on matters of the human mind..

[jimboloco]

5550 or fight
2050 is 5550 after the bronze age began
3500 BC not long ago at allllll

either we make peace
or kill the planet

keep on jammin
mnaz i don't exactly love you
but anyhow
you are a really decent chap
no matter what they say about my opinion

[mnaz]

either we make peace
or kill the planet

that's pretty much it.

yeh, and I tend to be too cynical at times... sometimes I don't like me either.

and that "not to be trusted" was from the imagined POV of the machine...