Terence McKenna: "People are like animals, they're always ready to let go of everything, and they're always ready to kill.

In my view, the reason we're always so ready to kill is because we're always ready to be killed.
The whole thing is to keep going.
We're a bunch of monkeys trying to make sense of the universe.
The only thing we really have in this sense is the desire for power.
Power is, to me, the most fascinating thing about this life.
It's this amazing feeling...the feeling that you're so far ahead of your fellow monkeys that it's not funny at the moment, that you're already the most powerful monkey in the whole universe.
And then you get to the very end of the universe, and you realize that you're just one tiny cog in the gigantic machine, one little piece of energy in the universe.
It's almost like the universe is telling you something pretty fucking profound, and you're just like "holy shit dude, what the fuck?"
And then it's just your body and you're just like "holy shit dude!"