From 0813ea67bd47a6c2466437c80637fc78599b79f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: qorg11 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:53:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Added timothy leary --- rocks/people/timothy_leary.md | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 134 insertions(+) create mode 100644 rocks/people/timothy_leary.md diff --git a/rocks/people/timothy_leary.md b/rocks/people/timothy_leary.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..11807a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/rocks/people/timothy_leary.md @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +# Timothy Leary is highly based + +>Think for yourself and question authority + +--- The dude himself + +Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996) was an American psychologist and 60's +counterculture figure. The guy studied psychology in the University of +Alabama but got his PhD in the same place BSD and sockets were +born. (in 1950, before sockets and BSD). + +Then he travelled to mexico and experimented with magic shrooms +(Psilocybe Mexicana, specifically) and he said "[I] learned more about +his brain and its possibilities ... and more about psychology in the +five hours after taking these mushrooms than [...] in the preceding 15 +years of studying and doing research in psychology." + +This guy was hippie enough to think that, by taking LSD, you'll +automatically be a good person. Once he said that if Kennedy and +Khrushchev took LSD together, the Cold War would end (which, tbh, +could be true). + +Leary thought that all drugs (except psychedelics) are shit because +they make us go back in evolution of the human mind. Depressant makes +us useless, alcohol makes us primitive animals. While psychedelics +help us to evolve. + +He was doing research in Harvard but he got fired. + +When crossing the Mexico-US border, his daughter was caught with one +or two joints[^0]. Leary took the responsability and he was sentenced to +30 years of jail[^1]. But he was set free under conditional liberty. + +In 1969 John Lennon & frens had one of those bed events (which is not +necessary fucking but speak about how love is awesome and how the +vietnam war must be stopped, things hippies did). Leary went to one +and had fun. + +He was caught again with weed. But in this case he said it is a plot +of the government to put it in jail. And went free again for +conditional liberty. + +To try to escape from that legal status, he anounced his candidacy for +governor of California against Ronald Reagan. His only promise as +Governor was to legalize LSD. His slogan was "Come together, Join the +party". As Leary and Lennon were friends, Lennon wrote a song to +support his campaign. The song is obviously "Come Together", the first +song of Abbey Road. + +Sadly, Americans are Americans and they elected Ronald Reagan over +Timothy Leary. + +In 1970, he was sentenced to 20 years of jail for those 2 times they +caught him with weed. I must say that from this part, this guy's life +seems like a good movie[^2]. + +They made him a psychologic test to see his role in prision, as this +guy did a lot of psychological research in Harvard, some of the tests +were designed by Leary himself. So he knew how to answer them in a +specific way so they think he's submissive, for-authority, instead of +the countercultural rebel he really was. So the test results gave that +Leary is a conformist, obedient with interest in gardening. So they +put im in a low-protection jail as gardener. Because they thought he +won't have any intention of flee from prission. But he did because he +was in a low-security prision. + +He said it was a prank to the State. He went to jail again, but the +Brotherhood of Eternal love (Those guys who gave LSD for free) and the +Weathermen (Extreme left organization). + +Then he went in exile with his... 4th... 5th wife, under the +protection of the Black Panters. The Black Panters didn't like his +messed up way of life (taking LSD and shit) so they tried to kidnap +him, so in 1971 they had to go to Switzerland. Nixon's government +convinced Swiss' government to put Leary in jail. But Nixon couldn't +convince them to extraditate him to the US. Nixon said that Leary is +"The most dangerous man in America". I don't see how this hippie could +be the most dangerous guy in America, but Nixon told so. Like dude +only wanted to help people, using LSD for that purpose. It's debatable +if Leary's methos were good or not, but we cannot argue about his good +intentions (He wouldn't be here if he did things i don't consider +based). What we can argue about, though, is that Nixon was more +dangerous than Leary, but not gonna talk about that here :-) + +They caught him again god knows where and they extraditated him this +time (altough there was no formal law to do so). He was facing a 95 +years sentence. He was put in an individual jail of maximum +security. Charles Manson was at his left. Manson also gave LSD to his +sect, and Manson was impressed of how Leary gave LSD to do good +things. + +To try to redouce his sentece, Leary started to collaborate to the FBI +giving them information about the Weathermen. His own children said +that Leary was a snitch, but he wasn't a snitch, snitches sucks and a +snitch couldn't be in rocks/people :-). What Leary did is to give +information about the Weathermen the FBI already had. He always waited +for the aprobal of the Weathermen before giving the information. So he +never gave anything that could be useful to the FBI. His sentence was +redouced. + +Then in 1976 his life started to be more relaxed, but still +interested. + +In this phase of his life, he just was an actor for movies, sometimes +interpreting fictional characters, or sometimes just being himself. + +He also tried not to shill drugs so he would give a better image to +society. (But in private he would still get high as shit). + +Then the 90s came and he said that computers are the LSD of the +90s. I don't know if I agree with that affirmation, wasn't alive in +the 60s nor in the 90s. But computers were something unbelivable for +that time, just like LSD in the 60s. + +Timothy Leary became highly interested for transhumanism, computers +and all kind of futurism. So he associated with many characters of +with those interests, such as Robert Anton Wilson (Discordianism guy) +and William Gibson (Neuromancer guy). + +Then this guy became cyberpunk as shit, he tried to get technophobic +bohemiams to "Turn on, boot up, jack in". + +Then he published [Chaos and +Cyberculture](https://www.erowid.org/library/books/chaos_cyberculture.shtml) +in which he elaborates on PC being the LSD of the 90s. Great book +altough you have to consume maybe a bit of mescaline to understand it. + +So Leary tried to have himself done whatever Morgan Everett did to +Lucius DeBeers to keep him alive. But in 1996, for want of the price +of tea and slice the old man died. + +[^0]: Maybe more +[^1]: I'd like to say that this is an abuse +[^2]: Or what the cool kids say, "kino"