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No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.
No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.
Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern
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- Terence McKenna
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- Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Terence McKenna: life dates 1946 to 2000. Wikidata Q380558, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380558 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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