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The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
The best history of the sixties counterculture
While researching this book, I reread Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain’s Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion. Not only is the book the best history of LSD, it’s the best history of ’60s counterculture as a whole: an eyewitness account of just how close the West, in…
Politics as psychopolitics
LOOKING BACK ON THAT time, what seems so incomprehensible is that we never took LSD more seriously. How was it we failed to grasp its importance? For the concept of deconditioning was at the heart of the New Left of the time. If any single feature set ’60s and ’70s radicalism…
9/11 and the end of middle-class society
Looking back on it today, the answer doesn’t seem to make that much difference. Either way, what 9/11 did was trash the last vestiges of middle-class society. For decades—for most of the twentieth century, in fact—the broad-based economic power of the middle classes had been…
Europe has only one political party
And from the kaleidoscope of contributions, a crude but effective analysis not only of the invasion of the Middle East, but of the political situation of England and Europe as a whole was spreading through hundreds of thousands of people: The various European governments…
Afraid a world parliament would actually work?
Later that year George Monbiot was to bring out The Age of Consent, the sequel to his success with Captive State. In it he tries to trace all economic and political problems back to a single source, lack of communication. Faithfully reflecting the spirit of the gatherings in…