Turn On, Tune In, Cash Out
In the 1960s, psychedelics seemed to promise social progress. Today their proponents are all about self-optimization under capitalism.
Illustration by Brandon Celi.
Timothy Leary became an apostle of psychedelia not by promising a good time but by preaching a new road to socialism — not a revolutionary or evolutionary one but a pharmacological one. For Leary, “The cause of social conflict is usually neurological. The cure is biochemical.” In the late 1960s, belief in the socially progressive effects of […]
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