I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.
We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.
Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.
It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order to satisfy their needs.