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He was speaking
in reference to "tune in, turn on, drop-out". The 'drop-out'
part meant to detach, or let go. I think most people got
the drop-out part as getting away from society and moving away
or something from the establish norm.
### - it's both, although if 'everyone' tuned-in there's be no need to
leave or go anywhere as such...
many of them did leave to go live in tepees in the canadian woods etc and
all the rest of it, dropping right out altogether! like walking away from
an incurable disease & a doomed species!
perforce the establishment fought back; demonised the term! (dirty,
long-haired drop-outs etc etc) society had to be 'saved' from everything
they believe in (all the money people anyway hah) being
dissolved/destroyed in only a couple or 3 generations?? nah man, they
fought back good! and they fought back dirty! and then it was all
arranged: leary's dream was going down!
Leary was just a little
ahead of his time.
### - an enlightened psychologist hah :)
i.e., psychologists gets to thinkin' about people & society innit, see?
they's forever puzzling over what's goin' on with us & tryin' to fix/find solutions; that's their job! and that's exactly what he was doin' and was directly involved in! and was at one point doing controversial experiments
on deathrow/condemned prisoners giving 'em mushrooms and stuff and looking
to see what it did to them? and it apparently seemed to make decent human beings out of them by all accounts heh; they changed!
and then there's the story/rumour of leary getting to see aldous huxley
who was experimenting with this new thing called lsd, he'd even wrote a
book about it as he considered it so important (doors of perception?)
wherein he shoots up lsd (it's ok he was a doctor heh) and documented the experiences in great detail (good book!)
now here was an highly 'educated' man, already an immovable pillar of
society! had published many fine plus reputable books and what he said was taken very seriously by his peers; in the world of bigwigs his word was
gospel! and then lol, here he is suddenly writing academically about lsd
and proclaiming it as a wonder drug?? and they couldn't just write someone
like huxley off? he was already an accepted part of the bricks and mortar
of society! (which gave 'em all a big headache if ya see what i mean:
can't listen to him, can't ignore him either lol)
so anyway, i dunno wtf huxley was up to meeting-up with leary?? (all
doctors together maybe + with similar/shared interests about saving the
human race...) and he told leary about this more powerful lsd and what it
can do and to maybe try it himself, but not before apparently extensively lecturing poor old tim on the requirements of having a damn good education
& stocked mind before ever taking this stuff so that the resulting
revelations would be intelligent! (and couldn't stress this enough
apparently!) and tim took it all in and started doin' exactly that:
started giving it only to the elite/highly-educated in our society, a tiny percent of highly intelligent individuals... these individuals, themselves
part & parcel of the establishment, would then ideally go back into it all
with perhaps more enlightened ideas and slowly change society for the
better from within! the elite were running the planet so them's the one's
to educate! right? (cool plan!)
problem is, old leary was a bit of a paddy see? haha (a joke at maybe not
being that smart/intellectual) and grew impatient? besides, he'd had so
much of that juice he was almost beyond caring anymore anyway? (high as a fucking kite/off his fucking face lol) and in the end thought: fuck it
maan, let's just give this whole road show & pony to everyone!!! turn
every fucker on the goddamn on! let's cut to the chase already?? let's
just save the entire world onetime!
and that's what he did lol, gave acid to the whole fuckin' planet LOL
(slightly controversial hah) and before ya know it within a little while
the whole damn planet was coming-up on this shit and started trippin'
roflmo! really weird shit started happenin' everywhere haha, pop music got strange :)))
there was genuine panic in intellectual circles! (really laughing)
something had to be done!
and they did it too, locked the poor fucker up for 20 years, stitched him
right up! buried him!
cue an announcement by the feds nearly 30 years ago now to the effect:
"after 30 years of damage done to the system by the hippy era, it's all
over now and society is finally back on-track" (or words to that effect)
i think kinda saying it all?
Funny he was explaining this to Teddy Kennedy.
Oh Tricky Dick sure gave Leary the shaft, he fucked him good.
Of course what goes around comes around (sooner or later).
"i'm not a crook". Really? i think you were fucker.
### - only give this shit to the 'elite' in society ok tim? we'll change
it from within! and 'coz anything else is madness! (lol)
next thing ya know tabs of acid were even turning up on the streets of
india?? haha!
omg you've surely dun it now tim!?
there's no going back from this now!
the genie's outta the bottle already?
but & so it didn't succeed, but still did change the world some innit eh? aspects of that whole era now firmly ingrained in our collective
consciousness, not in any kinda 'active' way, but still there!
peace & luv maan :)
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