“Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Timothy Leary, Doper
Yeah that’s right...Play alone all day on your devices. Don’t have any human contact whatsoever. Sit in your basement and collect your government checks.
Covid will make you a better person.
I know a guy that used to hang with Leary.
He looks like Saruman from LotR.
RE: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Timothy Leary, Doper
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He, of course, was a terrible influence on many people. I saw him lecture once in person (not as a fan) at my university.
Hunter S Thompson loathed him and said he knew Leary was an informant for the FBI and CIA, including framing people.
Excellent and well written book The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis (2018) details the battle between the two, each of whom was quoted as saying the title phrase against the other. I doubt Leary will have one fan left after this book. One passage: At a minimum security prison Leary worked out for weeks and practiced and then escaped using a high cable over the yard, pulling himself hand over hand. In the middle he changed his mind and wondered why he had started, but the fall would have killed him. He got away and was free. Cops lost track of him.
Thompson quote on Leary:
“But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.”