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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Yes. The terms he used they were more like “neurological elite.” Check out his book Neurologic (1973) for some of his earlier discussions of this. He started tying this explicitly to computer programmers later during this decade.
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oh cool, I've read about him and some magazine pieces he's quoted in but not full books of his.
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I grew up in Silicon Valley. The notion that you could be both a nerd and a jock at the same time was really... unusual until after the last financial crisis and a bunch of Wall Street types came back into the industry culture.
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Ken Kesey was a football star at Univ. of Oregon but then he switched to wrestling where he really dominated. Yet most of the literary society that fetes him forgets this facet of his life.
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