NOT PYNCHON just Tim Leary

[Mark Kohut]

Satire both are. Satire.
A valuable form to joke seriously within.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:37 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> This reviewer seems to think he is clever. Did anyone laugh at his crappy
> skit? Leary himself was at least funny enough to make me laugh and is only
> a target for shmucks like Boyle or RC because he is safely dead. The world
> is full of ego-trippers( TC Boyle not least in the writer type). Leary was
> the court jester variety with the guts to fart in the general direction of
> this self aggrandizing culture with the even bigger armed-ego problem.  He
> never forced anyone to believe his message about drugs or anything else.
> His whole message was not believe in me, I’m a Harvard prof; it was think
> for yourself and don't believe anyone just because thay have a credential.
> He took risks and paid a big price for being a loud-mouth advocate for
> LSD.  Blaming the paranoid, police state reaction to the 60’s , or the self
> destructive paths of a small part of that generation on him is just silly.
> Every generation has losses . As to psychedelics, there  were numerous
> responsible psychedelic researchers who did promising work*, numerous
> chemists  and others who put LSD on the street,   and numerous psychedelic
> experimenters who went on to enriched lives of spirit, science, technology
> and activism.
>
>  While Boyle keeps focusing  his cutting snidectomies on hippies and
> enviros and big game hunters, the country he is in kills millions in wars
> and despoils the earth, but I guess those things are not “historical
> frauds" . I read some of his short stories a few years back and decided I’d
> heard enough of what he has to say.  Skillful writer though, any aspiring
> writer could learn from him.
>
> * That research is finally being revived and used as the most effective
> treatment for PTSD ever.
> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mdma-drug-ptsd-trauma-psychedelic/
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> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mdma-drug-ptsd-trauma-psychedelic/>
>    A good book on the topic of psychedelic history and I suspect far more
> nuanced and balanced  is Michael Pollan’s  How to Change Your Mind. He also
> criticizes Leary , IMO more than is due but the facts are correct.
>
> > On Apr 8, 2019, at 2:44 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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