Meaning of digital culture?
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@yerrag I don't agree with calling those HIGHER realms. They're different, distorted. Ultimately we come back to "normal" senses, and though I have no regrets, I'm saddened to be in a world full of zombies/bugmen who have no aspirations to see something beautiful and strange.
I'm not sure if living in the jungle would work out for me. My body's too weak, and I lack support from tribes or proper funds to do it prepper style. Part of me thinks it's possible, but it's likely a delusion. So here I remain in the prison of this stage of civilization.
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Here's good bits by Hancock
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tVFctzhK0xg
And McKenna
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IAGxjOr3vYA
They all reject reductionism, and their books sold well, but culture is still bad.
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I can understand the challenges living in the Amazon entails. You know that well enough. Health is paramount. Where you're not expecting health insurance to fill in for a weak internal composition. Against the natural immunity of the wild, how could a body propped up by drugs stand a chance? Then you need the support of a tribe or a community that knows the ways there. You have to spend some time there be not be a stranger to it. Nothing like plucking a tour guide or a sherpa to carry for you, which is just a tad better than relying on ducktors on an insurance plan. Nice though to dream.
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@yerrag another thing is that loggers and miners continuously encroach onto the wilderness and there's no escape from the big machine even there. But setting that aside, what are the chances to win there? Disease and flies that eat your flesh build character, but I'd be foolish to say I'm eager to experience that. The wilderness is a big collection of suffering if things go south, and they always will. That being said, at some point I'll be so tired and humiliated that it will become attractive.
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It's one thing to say, another to do. Maybe what we can realistically do is hike the Appalachian Trail, or the Oeegon Trail.
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@yerrag I've already done that. It's great, but ultimately doesn't solve the main issue which is fear and apathy in most I meet and lack of funds to be more detached from the machine.
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Still, you got to do things which most people wouldn't be willing nor able to do.
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@yerrag I wanna finish this discussion on a positive note and wish you luck in finding machine elves and the transcendental object at the end of time
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@psi
yeah everyone else is a zombie and bugman but you are the woken one especially after you took a psychoactive cactuscome on man
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