Joe on “rising above limitation and restraint.”
by Robin Power
Joseph Chilton Pearce on the dynamic of biology and culture is well-worth the length of this interview. And THE BIOLOGY OF TRANSCENDENCE: A BLUEPRINT OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT is certainly worth the read.
In this interview with Duncan Campbell, he discusses the reasons culture is violent. He explains that by its nature it inhibits our biological drive toward transcendence. We are creatures designed to adapt and change. However, culture is not. Culture demands status quo. This tension will always build into a rage. Governmental powers that understand this have learned to shape narratives so that “an outside force . . .is organized” into a demon. The building internal rage of the individual is then culturally focused around an externalized block to the drive toward adaptability. It diverts the attention away from the self and toward other and releases the rage there.
And much more. Talk at its best.
