“Culture itself is some kind of neotenizing force, because what culture provides is a bunch of rules, so you don't have to think, and a bunch of myths, so you don't have to think again; culture has all the answers. [...] But now technology throws a curve, and the curve is that we live so long that we figure out what a scam this is. We figure out that what you're supposed to work for isn't worth having, we figure out that our politicians are buffoons, we figure out that professional scientists are reputation-building grab-tailing weasels, we discover that all organizations are corrupted by ambition, you know, you get the picture: we figure it out.”
— Terence McKenna, Dreaming Awake at the End of Time, @33:21, 1998