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+# 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"