AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary
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Charlatans: hippie fashion and permission to life act . Free speech movement: established student political force. San francisco state: proto hippies, experimental college, birth of light shows. Red dog saloon: validity to a scene . Timothy leary: lsd guru ken kesey: first private acid tests. Sf mime troup: new kind of community sensibility. Lsd: created a secret society (new language, impossible to explain, cheap) **after lsd, personalities changed in only 1 way: life accomplishment. Terrifying to capitalism, challenged capitalist thought and productivity. Vietnam day committee (vdc): coalition left-wing political groups formed in berkeley in 1965. May 5, 1965: huge campus march/protest of vietnam war, burning of draft cards. May 21+22: 35-hour protest at berkeley with 35,000 people. New protest: kesey came with lots of lsd, prankster bus w/ nationalistic symbols, Merry pranksters, rambling speech about how anti-war movement was similar to the military. Turn your backs and say fuck it! inspired the hippies, confounded the radicals.
