“We have to create culture. Don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow.” In 1999, Terence McKenna delivered a lecture called Shamans Among the Machines, offering a sharp critique of modern, mass-consumer culture. It’s here that he drops one of his most famous lines: “Culture is not your friend.” McKenna argued that mass culture isn’t designed to make us free, creative, or fully conscious, but to condition, distract, and domesticate us. It trains peop