Like cargo pants, platform shoes and junk bonds, mind obliterating psychedelic drugs have gone in and out of fashion forever and have recently reared their airborne head once again now that Gus Van Sant is bringing Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" to the screen. "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" told the wild-edging-to-unbelievable story of Ken Kesey, the "undisputed King of the Counter Culture" who during the early 1960s became America's top new literary light, then -- fueled by Sandoz 25 LSD -- abruptly ditched his day job as the next Norman Mailer to become a sort of proto acid Christ. This is the title, not incidentally, of my new book, the story of multi-talented Kesey's spectacular rises and falls.
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"Reality is a crutch for those who haven't got the courage for acid."
"All of the hippies used to go up into the aethers on Saturday night and come back into different bodies and no one knew the difference".
"Whew boy we got holy last night, man alive - we got so holy".
I've since realized that whole theory was just a product of the drug itself and there are MANY people who have no business drinking a beer, much less dropping acid.
agree not every one should take it .. but for us to did way back when . . it was definitely beneficial
Beero is my hero!
There are already enough people passing them themselves off as writers who are just passing off their opinion as literature or worthy commentary.
reading what you say about psychedelics is like a dog asking a cat how it thinks
(from the The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog - The Realist No. 89 - March-April 1971)
Don't tell me that drug use started with the hippies. Uppers and Downers and sidewaysers were everywhere. Most of them prescribed. Then there was alcohol, I bet that 10% of the men over 40 were alcoholics were I grew up.
In those idealized 50s there were wife beaters, incest, prejudice, adultery, juvenile delinquents. wicked gossipers and and and. I started going to dances when I was about seven and I never went to many were there wasn't a fight until the hippies started putting them on.
You cynics and critics out there can blame everything on 10 or 50 thousand hippies if you want, but I know different.
Now days when I want to find out what the "self absorbed, petulant egotists and power trippers" are doing I check out the political & business sections of Huffington Post.