Countercultures
| December 11th, 2008
(photo by jaycobs)
In what may be one of the most amazing things I’ve stumbled upon all week, Think for Yourself; Question Authority is a collection of essays by Arno Ruthofer that deal with all sorts of psychedelia—from ancient conceptions of psychoactivity to Timothy Leary, the Beats and Cyperpunk.
Leary argues that the millions of Americans who experienced the awesome potentialities of the brain via LSD certainly paved the way for the computer society we now live in. According to Leary, many of the people who were involved in the development of the personal computer got their inspiration from psychedelic drug experiences. He suggests that without the psychedelic revolution in the 60s, the personal computer would have been unthinkable.
[4.2. Countercultures (the Beat Generation, the hippies, the cyberpunks/ the New Breed)]
