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: Just as much as the 60's counter culture has
: been lumped into one basket I believe the
: same is true of the view of the so called
: establishment.
: There just are no absolutes when it comes to
: the human experience.
: It's the extremes on all ends of the
: spectrum that garner most of the attention.
: Somehow that becomes the status quo.
: As much as psychedelics may have played a
: part during the 60's revolution of mankind,
: it was more of a manifest destiny that was
: going to happen no matter what...It had to
: happen.
: Mass media also plays a huge role in the
: shaping of our existence.
: IPHONES, IPADS et al, are the drugs of
: todays gen.
: Each gen has their own torch to bear. The
: morals are forever changing since the
: beginning of mankind. We evolve.
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: --Previous Message--
: You know what I really can't stand?The way
: TV
: network news and the "Man" in
: general always depicted the members of the
: counterculture movement of the 60's as the
: villains in their plight against the
: establishment.What a smear campaign!They
: were out to stop a completely and totally
: unjust and even immoral war and THEY were
: the bad guys?The establishment press also
: had a way of misconstruing the whole LSD
: thing.According to the main stream press at
: the time,the drug was nothing but trouble as
: they would show pictures of those who had
: gone overboard with the drug and wound up
: sleeping on park benches in Golden Gate Park
: as if to say "This is DEFINIELTY what
: will happen to you.Nonsense!The
: psycho-tropic effects of the popular
: psychedelics at the time would differ from
: person to person depending on the mindset of
: the user as well as the environment in which
: it was taken.What was SAC's take on the main
: idiom of the youth of the times which
: obviously was to do their own thing and not
: just fall in line with the establishment and
: how their parents lived their lives at a
: similar age?A great example here would be
: the whole "Free Love
: thing".Suddenly,little or no taboos
: attached to things that if teens and early
: twenties types had done just a generation
: sooner,their parents may have wanted to tar
: and feather them.
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