GRGR(4) Re: TS's session, X and a Spengler ?

[Doug Millison]

At 2:19 PM -0700 6/20/99, Doug Millison wrote:
>If you accept the notion that one of the things TRP is doing in GR is
>writing about the 60s (the extended cultural sixties which back a bit into
>the 50s to catch the post-war Cold War and ahead a bit into the 70s, not
>the calendar's decade) but shifted back into a WWII setting, then the
>depiction of psychologists/psychiatrists as mad scientists might be more
>palatable than the picture Max paints. It was known, in certain hepcat
>circles in the 50s and 60s, that CIA experimenters were giving massive
>doses of LSD to unwitting subjects, to see how LSD might be used for mind
>control, for intelligence and military purposes.  See _Acid Dreams The
>Complete Social History of LSD:  The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond_ by
>Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain (1992, revised edition).


To clarify what seems a bit muddy as I re-read this, I don't at all
disagree with what Max said about psychologists/psychiatrists in WWII in
his fine post. I think TRP may be taking some of what anti-Establishment
folks in the 60s had to say about psychologists/psychiatrists and moving it
back into GR's WWII setting.

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