What kinds of hope shall be permitted?

What kind of value systems shall be allowed?

And the value systems that agrandise the possession of things

the tearing up of the earth

competition classism racism sexism

have led us to the brink of catastrophe.

Now I think we have to abandon western cultural values and return to the

deeper wisdom of the body in connection with the plans.

That's the seamless web that leads us back into the heart of nature.

And if we can do this then this very narrow neck of cultural crisis can be navigated.

Very little of the past can be saved.

The architechtonics the machines the systems of monetary exchange and propaganda

the silly religions the assinine asthetic cannons \rvery little of that can be saved.

But what can be saved is the sense of love and \rcaring and mutuality

that we all uh put into and take from the human enterprise.

You know theres a Grateful Dead song that says

you can't go back and you can't stand still

if the thunder don't get you than the lightning will

and we now hold

through the possession of these psychedlics

catalysts for the human imagination

of sufficient power that if we use them

we can deconstruct the lethal vehicle

that is carrying us towards the brink of apocalypse.

We can deconstruct that vehicle and redesign it into a kind of starship

that would carry us and our children out into the broad starry galaxy we know to be waiting us.

But its a cultural test.

Nature is pitiless.

Intelligence is a grand experiment upon which a great deal has been risked.

But if it proves inadequate

nature will cover it over with the same kind of

cool impunity that she covered over the \rdinosaurs, the trilobines and the crosockdarigiens fishes

and all those other folks who came before.

So what we must do I think is see our future in the imagination.

Catalyse the imagination.

Form symbiotic relationships with the plants.

Affirm archaic values and spread the good news

that what is out of control

what is in fact dying

is a world that had become too top heavy with its \rown hubris.

Too bent by its own false value system and too dehumanized to care about what happens to its own children.

So I say good riddance to it.

Bring on the archaic revival and

lets create a new world. That's it.