jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man) (03/26/88)
In article <1295@uop.edu) todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack) writes:
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)Counter-cultural crap?? How about if I believe in nuclear weapons,
)so I go out and build one, is that ok too??
Looks like it's too late. It's already been done. Whose fault is it?
)> "Anything to make a buck".
)> That phrase properly belongs to the 80's and the
)> environment Ronald "Just say no" Reagan helped to create.
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)Now you would'nt be trying to imply I am a child of the '80's would you?
)You would be grossly mistaken.
I have no idea who you are at all but based on what you have written here
that's the kind of gross mistake I'm inclined to make.
)> As I remember it, Leary explained to people that the "set and setting" were
)> very important factors in an LSD-25 experience. He did not advocate taking
)> LSD-25 for thrills.
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)But he did advocate taking it, and other things as well.
Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters.
)> I doubt your cousin is recovering from LSD experimentation. In fact, I
)> doubt he ever took it at all.
)> Correct me if I'm wrong.
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)Ok, you are wrong, he took LSD, and other things in his environment,
)trying to be like his older friends, who were into all sorts of crap.
And who were they trying to be like? Doesn't anyone think for themselves
anymore?
)> T.L. never had much
)> good to say about heroin or quaaludes or the drugs being abused today. LSD
)> is not addictive. Nor has it the potential for profit making that todays
)> street drugs have.
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)So this makes LSD irrelevant to the issue??
This countries' drug problems quite predate the discovery of LSD
)He bears responsibility, and so do his friends, as well as those who
)taught him that such poison is acceptable. You seem to not be real
)bothered by this idea.
The question is why were these ideas so attractive to him and his friends?
Why is the credibility of the "just say no" crowd so low?
This world is not always the way we'd like it to be, and it's comforting in a
way to find someone to blame, but this kind of false comfort looks to me like
just another drug...
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286,000 miles per second. It's not just a good idea, it's the law!
jim (uunet!actnyc!jsb)