Electric Kool-Aid was kind of a journal of the era. Like Kerouac's On the Road was for an earlier generation. There was linkage, too.
It's about time for another such journal.
In "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" there is a scene where Kerouac meets the Merry Pranksters.....and he doesn not like them. Timothy Leary was also leery of the Pranksters at first.
"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' "
Jack Kerouac, On the Road