It’s more that the fall of the hopeful idealism and ambition, the earnest naive optimism for the future of tech that was originally driving Silicon Valley the late 70s / early 80s into the monstrous thing it’s become in the 21st century; parallels the same HST saw happening at the end of the San Francisco 60s’ acid wave when the hippies burnt out and the tweakers took over.
“We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60’s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary’s trip. He crashed around America selling “consciousness expansion” without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously… All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create… a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody… or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.”
blargle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s more that the fall of the hopeful idealism and ambition, the earnest naive optimism for the future of tech that was originally driving Silicon Valley the late 70s / early 80s into the monstrous thing it’s become in the 21st century; parallels the same HST saw happening at the end of the San Francisco 60s’ acid wave when the hippies burnt out and the tweakers took over.