“We work jobs we hate, to buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.” -Tyler Durden

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Terence McKenna said a lot of this in the 80s and 90s too. He studied shamanism, ethnobotany, and called the universe a novelty producing engine that favors complexity. He believed the cosmos is alive with intelligence and we have become too egotistical as a species. Alfred North Whitehead was highly influential on his thinking.