Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

---

CULTURE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND with Terence McKenna go.meaningwave.com/CINYF

Culture is not your friend
Culture is for
Other people's convenience
And the convenience
Of various institutions
Churches
Companies
Tax collection schemes
What have you
It is not your friend
It insults you
It disempowers you
It uses and abuses you

Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend

None of us are well treated by culture
Yet we glorify
You know
The creative potential
Of the individual
The rights of the individual
We understand
The felt presence of experience
Is what is most important
But the culture is a perversion
It fetishizes objects
Creates consumer mania
It preaches
Endless forms of false happiness
Endless forms of false understanding
In the form of squirrelly religions
And silly cults
It invites people to diminish themselves
And dehumanize themselves
By
By behaving like machines

Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend

But we are led by the least among us
The least intelligent
The least noble
The least visionary
We are led by the least among us
And we do not fight back
Against the dehumanizing values
That are handed down as control icons
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend
Culture is not your friend