LSD
LSD is one of the
enabling technologies of hippie communes. Lisergic acid is
used "to free oneself from one's own body, in order to have a real
communion with the world".
Or something like that.
With the advent of cyberspace, it's back to the hippies: we need to
free ourselves from our bodies and from the material world. [1]
And politics is always the problem: "Governments of the Industrial
World, you weary giants of flesh and steel...". [2]
John Perry Barlow's
Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace is beautiful
and poetic. But have we succeeded in making the world "more humane
and fair than the world your governments have made before"?
Taking LSD is once again hip in the Bay Area. In small doses, or so
we are told. [3]
Or did you really think that anyone could see over 100 "unicorns"
without any help?
But the biggest irony of all is that mainstream America is now
saying of Facebook what it used to say about LSD: "God only knows
what it’s doing to our children’s brains". [4]
[1]
Turner, Fred.
From Counterculture to Cyberculture, Chapter 4.
[2]
Barlow, John Perry.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.
[3]
Hogan, Emma.
Turn On, Tune In, Drop By the Office.
[4]
Ong, Thuy.
Sean Parker on Facebook: 'God Only Knows What It’s Doing to Our
Children’s Brains'.
