5 negative commandments
Do not believe. Ideology has poisoned this planet. Ideology is bankrupt. It's a skin game. It's a shell game. It's only for marks. It is beneath your dignity as a body to get mixed up in ideology. After all, where is it writ large that talking monkeys should understand the nature of being anyway? Belief is an incredible cop-out on intellectual truth-seeking because belief precludes believing in its opposite. So this is a self-limitation. You become your own cop. The ideologies of the 20th century are so shoddy and hobbled-together, or toxic to human values, that they're not worth believing in anyway. So, deconditioning ourselves from belief: some people call it cynicism. I call it good sense! I'm not a cynical person, but I know shit from Shinola, and I don't expect people who don't to get a lot of respect from the rest of us. What does it mean if you're an optimist and you can't proclaim the difference between boot polish and excreta? It's ridiculous. Don't believe.

Don't follow. Following is a tasteless position to find yourself in. Pets follow, Vice Presidents follow, and bad acts follow. So why follow? All of these gurus, geisheis, roshis, and rishis are simply flim-flam artists. They've had thousands of years to get these cons together and run them on you. Believe me, I know, I'm a recovering Catholic! You have to fight your way free of belief and then do not follow. Do not follow, it's an obsolete tasteless thing and there's no human dignity in it whatsoever.

Do not, in some profoundly metaphysical sense, consume. Do not consume. For obvious reasons, and then for not so obvious reasons. The obvious reasons are that the fetish for objects made of matter is wrecking the planet. If everyone on Earth had what the people here have, there wouldn't be enough metal, glass, plastic, and petroleum on the planet to provide that kind of lifestyle to the billions of people who now aspire to it. None of this stuff brings happiness anyway. I recently had the experience of having my '75 Ford Grenada blow up on me in the middle of the night. So I had to buy a new car. So I went down a year and up a brand and got a '74 BMW. It cost me 2 grand. I guarantee you: once you have the quaternity symbol on the steering wheel, you don't need the $90,000 model. What we should all do is buy antiques; don't consume anything that hasn't already been made. There's a lot of shit, it's all over the place! The endless fetishism for consumer objects is wrecking the planet.

Don't watch. Watching is some kind of voyeuristic, sadomasochistic peculiarity that we are permitting ourselves because we think there are too many of us to do. I don't think this is true. I think watching is an incredibly disempowering thing. Millions of people live half-awake larval lives watching 6.5 hours of TV a day, and as long they stay in their homes, shopping by phone and fax, everybody is happy. But they participate not at all in the society. They're the marks, and they consume - the media, the entertainment, the clothes, the styles, the brands - they are the morons who are keeping this system running. Do not watch, because then you're not at the center of things.

Largely what I'm talking about here is reclaiming experience. This is what's been taken from us. This is why the new music and dance culture is so important. This is why drug culture is so important. This is why the celebration of sexual minorities is so important. This is all about coming to grips with who you are and how you really feel, and then experiencing it. You are not owned. It is not he, or she, or them that you belong to. We have been told we have to "fit in" or "make sense". This. Is. Not. True. We are creating a world that celebrates diversity and the uniqueness of every person. The complexification of our species is a process directly dependent on the complexity that we each bring to the process. The diversity that is spreading through society is a concomitant to the boundary dissolution. I really believe that science's inability to make sense of human beings in the world as part of nature - to make sense of art, love, hate, aspiration, fear - is the failure to come to terms with transcendental aspect of reality.

The world that we are leaving behind, the world that failed us, was a world of ideologies. The ideologies are, one by one, going down the tubes: Marxism, Freudianism, fascism...they one by one will be discredited. What is coming to be is a world where drugs replace ideologies. That's why drugs are so terrifying to those who oppose them. That's why they say "you just want to take to drugs to escape". That's right! You want to escape! You want to escape fascism, communism, socialism, existentialism, positivism, all of this stuff. You want to escape all of this stuff into the felt presence of the body, which means drugs, sex and syncopated music.

Do not multiply. Replace yourself, but do not multiply. "Go forth and multiply?" No - "go forth and lightly subtract" is a better way to do it.