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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Replying to @mr_james_c @kimmaicutler and
No better (more violent) example of this than 1968 student revolt in Germany, when they discovered that the country had simply integrated former Nazis 20 years before because they needed them to rebuild and operate the country, for practical reasons.
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Replying to @nickdothutton @mr_james_c and
All humans are dualist. Partly kind, and cruel, partly generous, and selfish. Only in Hollywood and the mainstream news stories do you find people who are supposedly wholly one or the other. Even religions recognise saints fall off the wagon now and then.
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Agree with this. There are some particularly nasty people in the world, but we've slipped into a phase where we're judging people in hindsight, but only doing so based on their behaviours that fall foul of *current* mores. I can't be the only one who finds that concerning.
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Replying to @mr_james_c @nickdothutton and
To me, it sounds like Leary was pretty controversial in his time, and then his reputation and status were washed in the 1990s because he charmed young, early web luminaries like Joi.
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“Leary was a master saint and a master hustler. He had the perfect mixture of innocence and arrogance, guilelessness and cold savvy, for his role.” August 11, 1974 https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/11/archives/timothy-leary-the-madness-of-the-sixties-and-me-the-sinner-and-the.html …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @mr_james_c and
He looked cooler than Vannevar Bush.
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