PART 1 A 60s Revolution? The very first psychedelic revolution was of course the one that awakened proto-man from his 200,000 year cognitive slumber. And we can view ancient Greece and the Rite of Eleusis, and perhaps one or two additional ancient societies [
And I like the way you defined revolution as a process, instead of the lame version of a transfer of power to another group. I wholeheartedly agree with that being true revolution.
As a 60s survivor, the revolution was in my head - not in the outside world. Indeed, at Oxford '69 to '72, many of my compadres joined various manifestations of the hard left - International Socialists (who I think became the laughable SWP) and the International Marxist Group; one contemporary friend ended up in the Revolutionary Communist Party (not the Establishment Communist Party, natch - and indeed, splitters from the RCP formed the RC Tendency. Or the Alan Parsons Project. Hard to remember now).
What I recall? Hard Left Uni politics was SO boring, such a cul de sac, that the ready availability of HQ psychedelics was of far more interest to this searcher.
This dovetails well with this https://medium.com/swlh/what-is-acid-communism-e5c65ecf6188
And I like the way you defined revolution as a process, instead of the lame version of a transfer of power to another group. I wholeheartedly agree with that being true revolution.
As a 60s survivor, the revolution was in my head - not in the outside world. Indeed, at Oxford '69 to '72, many of my compadres joined various manifestations of the hard left - International Socialists (who I think became the laughable SWP) and the International Marxist Group; one contemporary friend ended up in the Revolutionary Communist Party (not the Establishment Communist Party, natch - and indeed, splitters from the RCP formed the RC Tendency. Or the Alan Parsons Project. Hard to remember now).
What I recall? Hard Left Uni politics was SO boring, such a cul de sac, that the ready availability of HQ psychedelics was of far more interest to this searcher.
And nothing has changed since then.
Oddly, my mother recently stated, and it clearly was not up for discussion, that in her day, people obeyed authority.
I had to chuckle. My mother was 20 in 1960. In her mind, there was no revolution, psychedelic or otherwise.
I came into the 60's a toddler, and left it barely a teen. The 70's were when the revolution went underground like mycelium.