It is officially documented that the United States government performed LSD experiments on both the willing and the otherwise unwitting. We know the Military Industrial Complex tested this dissociative on its own soldiers to see if it would make them more violent and on foreign forces to find out if it could function as a truth serum. Doses of LSD did neither of these, but this did not stop the desire among power players to find a nefarious use for the compound.
We are also aware of the torture done on the hundreds (thousands) of victims subjected to the MK Ultra experiments in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and likely in black sites around the globe. The purveyors of MK Ultra were obsessed with creating a blank slate out of the human mind, they wanted to wipe the natural personality out and implant whomever they wanted in its place. While this was not specifically accomplished, LSD was a large part of their research.
Most of the findings from the MK Ultra experiments were destroyed, but that doesn’t mean that much on the subject of social engineering wasn’t learned. In fact, probably quite a lot was learned and implemented into product advertising and the culture driving we are subjected to through popular entertainment, news, fashion, and schooling.
The extraordinary efforts to eliminate leftist organizing in the United States runs the gambit from the McCarthy’s House Unamerican Activities to, the CIA sponsored Iowa Writer’s Workshop, to the manufacture of the hippie dream. The leveraging of a band known as The Grateful Dead was a vehicle through which the distribution of disjointed philosophies on the age of Aquarius could be distributed along with plenty of LSD. The festival scene was likely equally a guided program and an experiment.
At a time when peoples around the globe were poised to achieve self- determination, LSD distribution in the United States was molding its future political class. The overwhelmingly white and middle-class Hippie subculture who had been born into a demographic detached from a political core would be intentionally turned away from developing a narrative for solidarity across socio-economic lines in order to consume, instead, a brand of hyper individualism that became a dogma so feverishly espoused no religion could rival it.
This specific class of americans were destined to take the reins of the institutions that drive western culture. They would become the politicians, professors, CEO’s, authors, filmmakers, reporters, and designers of the curriculum that would be taught in primary and secondary schools too. It would be the lure of individually gaining the basic securities that socialism could have offered everyone, plus the kind of status that comes with those trappings, and the opportunity to fulfill the delusional promise that one can change imperialist systems from the inside that would eventually sway the cynics of a failed revolution to become what they were once compelled to ridicule.
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