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LSD
LSD is one of the
enabling technologies of hippie communes. Lisergic acid is
used "to free oneself from one's own body, in order to have a real
communion with the world".
Or something like that.
With the advent of cyberspace, it's back to the hippies: we need to free ourselves from our bodies and from the material world. [1]
And politics is always the problem: "Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel...". [2]
John Perry Barlow's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace is beautiful and poetic. But have we succeeded in making the world "more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before"?
Taking LSD is once again hip in the Bay Area. In small doses, or so we are told. [3]
Or did you really think that anyone could see over 100 "unicorns" without any help?
But the biggest irony of all is that mainstream America is now saying of Facebook what it used to say about LSD: "God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains". [4]
Or something like that.
With the advent of cyberspace, it's back to the hippies: we need to free ourselves from our bodies and from the material world. [1]
And politics is always the problem: "Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel...". [2]
John Perry Barlow's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace is beautiful and poetic. But have we succeeded in making the world "more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before"?
Taking LSD is once again hip in the Bay Area. In small doses, or so we are told. [3]
Or did you really think that anyone could see over 100 "unicorns" without any help?
But the biggest irony of all is that mainstream America is now saying of Facebook what it used to say about LSD: "God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains". [4]