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[a thread about Timothy Leary]


#>rint69@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (rintoul bradley e) writes:
#>>I admire the dude a little, but when he goes back and looks at stuff
#>>he thought of and believed in in the past and calls it "a bunch of 
#>>shit" I dunno. 

He's right.  During the 60's, when everyone else was having fun, Leary
was trying to look like some kind of big shot by pretending the events
of the time (the drug culture) actually had substance.  He was a pretentious
paranoid goober. 

Perhaps the best account of the era was by Tom Wolf in "The Electric
Kool-Aid Acid Test".   While most fun-loving people were out having 
a good time (like Ken Kesey), Leary was, I don't know, like the
drunk at the party who has cornered you into a serious conversation. 

Wolf revealed Leary for who he really was/is.  Most people know very
little, if anything factual about the guy, and when they do get to know
him, they are supremely disappointed, because he just doesnt live up 
to the hype and/or legend that has preceded him.

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farley@access.digex.com  <Charles U. Farley>
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