It's all happening. On the 23rd from 3-4pm EST I will be seating down and talking to Douglas Rushkoff. Rushkoff is one of those rare people who genuinely wants to be as human as he can be and that means making the world into a better place and is actively putting in work to pull more than his own weight in this collective activity. I want to connect with Rushkoff so that we can retrieve some of the cyberdelic roots of the internet.
Ideas come from somewhere, and most of my favorite ones to play with stem from his mind.
Cyberians share a psychedelic common ground. To them, drugs are not simply a recreational escape but a conscious and sometimes daring foray into new possible realities. Psychedelics give them access to what McKenna is calling the overmind and what we call Cyberia. However stoned they might be when they get there, psychedelic explorers are convinced that they are experiencing something real, and bringing back something useful for themselves and the rest of us.
Psychedelic exploration, however personal, is thought to benefit more than the sole explorer. Each Tripper believes he is opening the doors between humanity and hyperspace a little wider. The few cyberians who haven't taken psychedelics still feel they have personally experienced and integrated the psychedelic vision through the trips of others, and value the role of these chemicals in the overall development of Cyberia. It is as if each psychedelic journey completes another piece of a universal puzzle. -Life in The Trenches of Hyperspace, Douglas Rushkoff
Note: Jesus I hate when this happens, the last postI did was in freewrite and I didn't look to change it and it set it to this group. Sorry...