R.D. Laing, a Scottish psychiatrist in the 60’s, was horrified at the thought of a world even stranger than what was presently. Terence McKenna, a fellow fond of psychedelics, developed a theory about novelty in the universe he called Timewave Zero. When we reached maximum novelty the end was upon us. They died significantly before the present age. Laing world certainly see no redemptive dialectic in the vortex of accelerating change. Terence would see his theory vindicated by how extremely the present day is a break with, rather than an evolution of the past.
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