I think it's just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder and finally it's going to be so weird

that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is.

Eventually people are going to say, what the hell is going on?

It's just too nuts. It's not enough to say it's nuts. You have to explain why it's so nuts. The systems which are in place

to keep the world sane are utterly inadequate to the forces that have been unleashed.

The collapse of the socialist world, the rise of the internet.

These are changes so immense, nobody could imagine them ever happening.

And now that they have happened, nobody even bothers to mention what a big deal it is.

So the good news is that as primates, we're incredibly adaptable to change.

Put us in a desert, we survive.

Put us in the jungle, we survive.

Under Hitler, we survive.

Under Nixon, we survive.

We can put up with about anything, and it's a good thing,

because we're going to be tested to the limits.

And this is why the right wing is so alarmed, because what they see going on is the breakdown

of all tradition, all order, all sanctioned norms of behavior. And they're quite right

that it's happening, but they're quite wrong to conclude that it should be resisted or is somehow evil.

The mushroom said to me once, it said, this is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for the stars.

You don't depart for the stars under calm and orderly conditions.

It's a fire in a madhouse. Working with Annette on a regular, rare Thursday show at this point,

into Friday, Maria, Albanyce, the day off,

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