Re: VL-IV (15): Ché For Children, pages 325/327

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Wed Apr 8 13:18:52 CDT 2009


On Apr 8, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> I think that distinction is important. I mainly meant the thinkng  
> they're going to live forever part (or was it never dying)

Don't know if you ever have been in Zoyd & Mucho's shoes, but if you  
were in on all that psychedelisized spirituality of the sixties—Baba  
Ram Dass, Aldous Huxley, the Luces—there was the sense that LSD was a  
direct path to enlightenment. I don't think that our collective  
"flash" was wrong—Gaia seems like a direct result of that flash— but  
the counter-reaction against that flash was very wrong.

On the other hand, MKULTRA may have blossomed into "The Summer of  
Love", it may have been a deliberate goal of MKULTRA to derail the  
emerging anti-war and civil rights movements, can't rule that out.

Seems like that this issue will pop up in "Inherent Vice."



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