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