People nostalgize the past but Stewart Brand attended the same prep school as Zuck, Leary was a Harvard psychologist who first tried shrooms at an affluent resort town outside Mexico City. These movements were privileged, even if it’s not as extremely unequal as it is now.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1064639819123351552 …
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Yeah, East Coast carpetbaggers except for Kesey — & the Beats sure had a lot of Columbia alums (not to mention William Burroughs)…
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Worth noting: Corso and Cassady were schooled in reform schools and prison. My older SF cousins grew up in the shadow of the Beats: knowing the legacy, I was shocked as a teen to learn that there had been ANY Ivy League connection.
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