I think life is tremendously tenacious
And has an immense capacity to organize itself to meet
Any crisis provided it knows it's coming
There are scars on this planet
Enormous scars
There's a scar a billion and a half years old on the Canadian Shield that is twice the size of the lunar crater Copernicus
[Chorus]
Now, what is going on?
What is going on?
What is going on?
What IS going on?
Now, what is going on?
What is going on?
What is going on?
What IS going on?
This thing that came down 50,000 years ago out near Flagstaff, Arizona
That was a tiny object
It was something like 30 meters across
It was moving nine times the speed of a rifle bullet
One scenario for solving our problem
Is a mass migration into the past
We could literally dump this whole scene
And go 100 million years into the past of the planet
And set up there, and set up there
In a confined zone
If it were only 10,000-years deep, it would never show in any fossil record
If we held ourselves to a 10,000-year wide window, that's such a brief period of time
And so long ago, that we would basically just appear to have disappeared
[Chorus]
I think this is a haunted planet
And we are a haunted species
I think this is a haunted planet
And we are a haunted species
Every solid body in the solar system is heavily cratered
I think this is a haunted planet
And we are a haunted species
Is a mass migration into the past
We could literally dump this whole scene
And go 100 million years into the past of the planet
And set up there, and set up there
In a confined zone
If it were only 10,000-years deep, it would never show in any fossil record
If we held ourselves to a 10,000-year wide window, that's such a brief period of time
And so long ago, that we would basically just appear to have disappeared
[Chorus]
I think this is a haunted planet
And we are a haunted species
I think this is a haunted planet
And we are a haunted species
Every solid body in the solar system is heavily cratered
I think this is a haunted planet
And we are a haunted species
[Intro]
History is just a 25,000-year dash
From the trees to the starship
History is just a 25,000-year dash
From the trees to the starship
And while it's going on, it's wild and wooly
But it only lasts like that
And then you you're in the starship
And then you're in the starship
And then you're in the starship
And then you're in the starship
And then you're in the starship
Because we are like bacteria or something, in the shortness of our lifespan
To us, 25,000 years, you can get lost in the middle of that and you can't see either end
But from the point of view of a species, it's just instantaneous
History is just a 25,000-year dash
From the trees to the starship
History is just a 25,000-year dash
From the trees to the starship
And while it's going on, it's wild and wooly
But it only lasts like that
And then you you're in the starship
And then you're in the starship
And then you're in the starship
And then you're in the starship
And then you're in the starship
Because we are like bacteria or something, in the shortness of our lifespan
To us, 25,000 years, you can get lost in the middle of that and you can't see either end
But from the point of view of a species, it's just instantaneous
In spite of my nature boy, thrust in most contexts
I'm very interested in virtual reality and the idea of making the imagination explicate
Or interiorizing the exterior world
One vision that I've had of the kind of future utopia is
It opens on a world which looks like our world of 10,000 years ago
People live tribally, they are physically perfect, they're naked, they want for nothing
They appear to have no material culture whatsoever
Then when you shift your point of view so that you're inside one of these people's heads
You discover that when they close their eyes, there are menus
Hanging in space in front of them
And by glancing at these menus with a certain intensity
They are able to make their way into a culture
That is entirely three dimensionally present for them, but which nowhere impinges on the world of three dimensional space
Sort of the idea that you could have the Vatican Library installed optionally when you have dental work
I don't think this is that far-fetched I mean, a lot of money is going towards this
I'm very interested in virtual reality and the idea of making the imagination explicate
Or interiorizing the exterior world
One vision that I've had of the kind of future utopia is
It opens on a world which looks like our world of 10,000 years ago
People live tribally, they are physically perfect, they're naked, they want for nothing
They appear to have no material culture whatsoever
Then when you shift your point of view so that you're inside one of these people's heads
You discover that when they close their eyes, there are menus
Hanging in space in front of them
And by glancing at these menus with a certain intensity
They are able to make their way into a culture
That is entirely three dimensionally present for them, but which nowhere impinges on the world of three dimensional space
Sort of the idea that you could have the Vatican Library installed optionally when you have dental work
I don't think this is that far-fetched I mean, a lot of money is going towards this
The way I think of the psychedelics is
They are catalysts to the imagination
They were back 100,000 years ago
The imagination, which was just this glimmering
This iridescence on the surface of ape cognition
Was under the influence of the reciprocal feedback of self-reflection
That is created by watching your own mind
Watching your own mind
Watching your own mind
Watching your own mind
Because it has suddenly become interesting
Because it has suddenly been flooded by a psychoactive aiming, that iridescence
Has been coaxed into language, art, to architecture, music, poetry
The whole ball of whack
But now, we know these things
We can uncover the secret of our origin (of our origin)
I'm very keen for the notion of what I call the archaic revival
And the archaic revival is this overarching metaphor
That is the way for us to go to save our necks at this point
When a culture gets into trouble
Instinctively what it does is it goes back through its own past
Until it finds a moment where things seemed to make sense
And then it
They are catalysts to the imagination
They were back 100,000 years ago
The imagination, which was just this glimmering
This iridescence on the surface of ape cognition
Was under the influence of the reciprocal feedback of self-reflection
That is created by watching your own mind
Watching your own mind
Watching your own mind
Watching your own mind
Because it has suddenly become interesting
Because it has suddenly been flooded by a psychoactive aiming, that iridescence
Has been coaxed into language, art, to architecture, music, poetry
The whole ball of whack
But now, we know these things
We can uncover the secret of our origin (of our origin)
I'm very keen for the notion of what I call the archaic revival
And the archaic revival is this overarching metaphor
That is the way for us to go to save our necks at this point
When a culture gets into trouble
Instinctively what it does is it goes back through its own past
Until it finds a moment where things seemed to make sense
And then it