TERENCE MCKENNA: “I assume that we’re all peasants, really. When was the last time you spent time with someone who formulates American foreign or social policy? I don’t spend time with those people. We’re rich peasants, of course. Don’t confuse poverty and peasantry. We’re rich peasants, but we’re totally in the dark, and the great ones come and go on their sleighs to and from the castle, and we mark their comings and going, but we have no idea what’s brewing up there. Every once in a while, they stumble, and we get LSD, or the Internet, or something else that slips through the cracks. It’s impossible to control history, and it’s wonderful that so many people are trying, because it makes for such an interesting game.”

(from a Jan 1998 interview with Charles Hayes, printed in Shaman’s Drum, Number 60)