Timothy Leary was probably a kook – but we probably won’t know for sure until history plays itself out over the next several hundred years. However, I want to point out one of his ideas that I thought was interesting.
Are we living at “the end of time”? I think we all sort of believe that we are living towards the end of human existence. We have it, somewhere in the back of our minds, that we’re living in the last chapter of the world. We’re all kind of waiting for Jesus Christ to come back or World War III to blow us all away. And in that sense, it almost feels as though we’ve giving up trying to move forward or improve. We’re exhausted, out of ideas, and just waiting it out until the end.
However, Timothy Leary’s thought was that we are not at the end of times… we are in the very infancy of human existence. I think this is a unique thought. He thinks we have much more potential than what we’ve accomplished so far. We need to stop fighting wars and start cooperating. Lets use the tools like space travel, the internet, and drugs to take human existence to the next level.
Now, let me clarify my stance – I’m not into taking illegal drugs of any kind. However, I don’t think this idea is lost because of the mention of drugs.
Let’s stop living like we’re the tail-end of existence. Let’s live like we’re the pioneers – because we might be. We might be written about in history books a thousand years in the future… of course they won’t be books anymore. Let’s move forward.