On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:32 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/15/2014 3:19 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 16 April 2014 09:42, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What cultural ideas would those be? Get out of Viet Nam? Civil rights >> for blacks? The pill? >> >> Plus (off the top of my head (man)) - sexual freedom and equality, the > anti-establishment vibe seen in Occupy, Wikileaks etc, freedom of > expression, a raft of artistic ideas too wide for this margin to contain... > > > I can see attributing some artistic ideas to the psychedelics, but I think > the anti-establishment vibe came from the Viet Nam war and sexual freedom > came from the pill. Ideals of equality drove the civil rights movement and > its natural extension was to equal rights for women. > > I don't see any useful insights as having come from psychedelics. Sure, > their effect is interesting from a neurophysiological standpoint - but so > are brain lesions. > Unfortunately we can't analyse this issue scientifically without risk being thrown in a cage for many years. This leads me to conclude that there might be something to be said for the anti-establishment-vibe-inducing properties of psychadelics. :) Especially given that there is no evidence whatsoever of any serious social or health ill-efects associated with the use of such drugs. For what it's worth, Francis Creek, Carl Sagan and Steve Jobs might disagree with you. Telmo. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
