Quote of the Day (4/29/11)

Human beings are in the process of being radically redesigned. It would be unfair to apply old European standards to the new creatures we are becoming. I do not lament the passing of the unconscious. It had already been trivialized out of existence by the mid-sixties. Psychedelics dealt it further blows. Self-improvement techniques bypassed it altogether. Television finished it off. We are new beings now. We don't need an unconscious. We are unconscious.
--Andrei Codrescu, "The Death of the Unconscious"