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Looking so hard for the glasses I am already wearing....
Curious what you think Hunter meant by this
"We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.”
I think/thought he was just describing the aftermath of Leary's acid tests. The man was trying to empower people and ended up creating vulnerabilities that were immediately and viciously exploited by entities like the CIA with MKUltra, and a whole bunch of fucked-up Hell's Angel's doing a lot of horrible shit.
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Interesting. Maybe I will learn more about it.
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I don't know what that means. And I don't know much about Leary. I can only speak about my experience.
I have met a lot of people that have worked with these tools many different ways. It seems to come down to intention. And it is a journey of self. I see a lot of people lost in the space, more confused than they were when they started. I also have witnessed miracles. For me, I came into that world, looking for peace and healing. I wanted to understand myself better. And that is what I got. There is no cure. But I think we can understand ourselves better. And if we believe in the tools, they can be tools. All i know now is that I don't know anything. That is more comforting that trying to believe I know what is going on. I do feel like i believe in something bigger now. I have no idea what I am saying.
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The 60's was not a decade of peace and love...
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963) Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963) Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964) Assassination of Malcolm X (1965) Texas Tower Shooting (1966) Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1968) My Lai Massacre (1968) Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca Murders (1969) Kent State University Shootings (1970)
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I am sure it wasn't. Do people think that about the 60s?
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the austin powers psyop /s
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I did see Austin Powers. I get it.
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So all that is to say... set and setting. And there are no bounds to either.
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I agree with that.
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Like just today, there was someone on the side of i75 firing into traffic.
The Beatles!
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