"I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's."

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I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.

— Terence McKenna