Terence McKenna believed that history isn’t just a sequence of events — it’s a movement toward novelty. New ideas, new forms of consciousness, and new ways of organizing reality.In this video, I reflect on McKenna’s idea that many people today feel stuck not because life is harder, but because nothing genuinely new seems to be happening. Technology accelerates, but imagination narrows. Systems become more efficient, but meaning doesn’t deepen.

McKenna argued that when novelty slows down, culture begins to recycle itself — stories repeat, politics stagnates, and the future starts to feel smaller instead of more open. Not because possibility has disappeared, but because imagination is being managed.

Whether or not you agree with him, McKenna leaves us with a haunting question:If the future no longer surprises us, is that because reality has run out of possibilities — or because we’ve stopped allowing ourselves to imagine them?

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