Hallucinogenic Weapons: The Other Chemical Warfare by RU Sirius

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Hallucinogenic Weapons: The Other Chemical Warfare
By RU Sirius
January 10th, 2007

There were many acid tests happening in the 1950s and 1960s. Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters dosed sometimes-unsuspecting proto-hippies. The CIA was dosing unsuspecting mainstreamers. Leary dosed fully cognizant artists, therapists and students. But meanwhile, over at Edgewood Arsenal Proving Grounds in Maryland, psychiatrist James S. Ketchum was testing LSD, BZ and other psychedelic and deliriant compounds on fully informed volunteers for the U.S. military

Fred Turner on Rhetorical Prototypes & failure of social innovations

"Mind" blowin' audio talk on counter-cultures, communes, and possible failure theories of
Left Politics since 1968....

Fred Turner explores this extraodinary and ironic transformation by tracing the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay–area entrepreneurs who made the connections between San Francisco “flower power” and the emerging technological hub of Silicon Valley. Thanks to their vision, counterculturalists and technologists alike joined together to reimagine computers as tools for personal liberation, the building of virtual and decidedly alternative communities, and the exploration of bold new social frontiers.


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