And if you are worrying about .... Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody, then you are disempowered. You are giving it all away to icons. And we're told “no, we're unimportant, we're peripheral, get a degree, get a job, get this, get that, and then you're a player”. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind, and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
(Terence McKenna: Reclaim Your Mind)