In San Francisco, tech and hippie culture used to be friends, not enemies. A beautiful article by Timothy Leary's godson, Joi Ito:https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-joi-ito-great-digitization-event/?mbid=email_onsiteshare …
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Replying to @Noahpinion @nxthompson
Timothy Leary’s first wife committed suicide.pic.twitter.com/dRQ8vpTMxj
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Then during his second marriage, his landlord called the cops on him because she overheard him beating her. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/06/26/acid-redux …pic.twitter.com/pLavC5d6tW
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Then when he was raising his pre-teenage daughter, he hosted psychedelic drug experiments at his house and had to convince guests not to sexually assault his children. https://www.thenation.com/article/burnt-out-case/ …pic.twitter.com/dPKjunOcTZ
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When his daughter grew up, she hung herself with a pair of shoelaces in a Los Angeles jail cell after shooting her boyfriend.http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-07/local/me-694_1_timothy-leary …
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Why do we celebrate these figures? It was a toxic culture from the beginning.
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Every generation lives to see its heroes recast as villans. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in 50 years time.
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Replying to @mr_james_c @kimmaicutler and
It's also fascinating that the ways of thought developed by the counterculture of the 1960s (Post Modernism etc) are now being used to attack the counter culture itself.
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The counterculture, as it was originally described by the creator of the term, existed in opposition to a technocratic state. But the technocracy separated itself from the state, privatized, and then appropriated elements of the counterculture.
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Or: Young people became old people Young people became old people Young people became old people Growing old means making compromises with the world as it is rather than what you wish it would be. The next generation attacks you for those compromises, then repeats them.
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There are more benign, techno-utopian and visionary figures from that period but Leary sounds kind of sociopathic to me.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @mr_james_c and
He was a terrible scientist, too
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