Terence
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWriter
culture dimensions
Culture is another dimension.
responsible humans human-beings
Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
knows
For all we know, we know nothing.
reality space understanding
The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.
jobs thinking class
I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.
thinking levels would-be
We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.
gentleman tables eras
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
intelligent causes language
It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.
technology years mind
The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.
technology humans species
Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
years two long
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
needs metaphor
We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
phenomenology shapes shifting
Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.