Cypherpunk Inadequacies / Why the 60's failed

[admin at pilobilus.net (Steve Kinney)]

On 09/03/2017 09:47 PM, Mirimir wrote:
> On 09/03/2017 12:05 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 09/02/2017 09:06 PM, grarpamp wrote:
>>> A "store" for SK's top 10% wealth transfer? Lol, designed.
>>> Less time hobbled on "psychedelics".
>>> More time on "revolutin".
>>> Or at least gettin hippie dirty, jiggystyle.
>>> Crypto rave, on.
>>
>> As an unwitting participant in either one of the last MKULTRA era
>> experiments, or an independent M.D.'s "good deed for the day," I have a
>> special relationship with LSD:  I got microdosed twice a week for six
>> weeks in 1972, and that experience went a long way toward making me
>> whatever the fuck I am today.  A few years later I thought I was taking
>> LSD for the first time... but then came the "Hello old friend!" moment.
> 
> Woah. So do you remember, back in 1972, what you thought was happening?
> 
> And yes, that acid come on is unmistakable ;)

I was told at the time that the medication in question contained a
"stimulant" and that it might make me feel "funny," but not to worry
about it, it would wear off in a few hours and I would eventually get
used to it.

I did not so much get used to it, as start really looking forward to it.
 When the second batch arrived, click, nothing.  No effect.

Along about that time I started to question literally everything,
including the nature of reality itself.  I can't say the experience
affected my core values - for instance I was already dead set against
war, regardless of excuses offered, and got in trouble from time to time
for not bothering to observe "color lines" on the playground etc.  But I
suspect the LSD did have a radicalizing effect, in the literal sense of
that word:  It directed my attention to the fundamentals that define a
person's life and the structure of events in the larger world.




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