the second person who promoted this in the early stage was allen ginsberg. he never met a drug he did not like. to try that first time, anyway. he sometimes backed off after the first time. ginsberg tried many times by the time he took lsd. he got his first lsd in a government run experiment sponsored by the veteran 's administration hospital at stanford university in the 1950's. late 1950's. ginsberg was astonished by lsd, compared to the other psychedelic drugs he tried such as peyote, mescaline, he found lsd revolutionary. he thought if lsd was used widely it would cause the political, social and cultural system of the united states, and the entire world, to implode. that's with the beats wanted all along since the 1940's. let's change everything, right? ginsberg, like huxley worried publicitymature mass of this drug would lead to a breakdown. the whole thing would cause a crisis and produce big backlash. in 1960, it was allen ginsberg who introduced lsd to timothy leary. it is not the other way around. leary was already -- he was a harvard psychology rese

principal hero of the sixty's is dr king there are a lot of other people i write about it admired allen ginsberg a lot of musicians. but dr king's belief was through soul force through moral force you could transform people and he figured out a way to get at the conscience of white america i think we have to get into the conscience of the families of oligarchy we have to get into the consciences and find the commonality of beliefs with people that are suspicious of liberalism. and i just think it's a long road but it's a road that you can't walk down without love is corny as that sounds there are some lefties that have it criticized saying that's not practical in the trump era but i'd like to know what is practical because we know that yelling and screaming is insufficient that doesn't mean there aren't things that you should protest about round us recently wrote protest resist but do it with love and i think that's the only way to go i don't think it's easy but i think the other thing we have to do is find common ground between the people who were hillary people the people who are bernie people

in 1960 was allen ginsberg who introduced ellis he to timothy -- lsd to timothy larry. already -- he was a harvard psychology research of and he researched other drugs at the time including magic mushrooms. was not nearly as powerful as lsd. ginsberg told him he need to try lsd. leary did not believe him put about thearned leary political dangers of doing this. and leary who had no experience with politics, media or the law paid no attention. ginsberg was prosecutor for the publication of howell and if image trial of the 1950's. ginsberg understood public relations and law, and the way you get into trouble easily. leary becomes the third figure in the spread of lsd. to histed giving lsd friends and graduate students and harvard undergraduates. that is when harvard pulled the plug. for963 harvard fired leary turning undergraduates onto it. he then moved to upstate new york to an estate to conduct what he called lsd experiments. millbrook was owned by one of his followers who had inherited -- obviously an heir to a wealthy new york city fortune. experiments were rather ca

allen ginsberg's howl, dish was a huge influence. lenny bruce, who is the person who transformed the medium of comedy, standup comedy from merely gags in the vaudeville style to very satiric, acerbic but meaningful style of analysis of social problems. lenny bruce is the one who made comedy politically and socially relevant. lenny bruce was an equal opportunity offender. he went against both liberal and conservative chivalrous and the first thinker really had an enormous impact on me in that lesson was oscar wilde by chance in a secondhand bookstore in syracuse, i stumbled on a copy of the book, it was a british book called the grams of oscarwilde and it is still available , it's the dover addition , they couldn't believe no one in the us recognize the word program so if they call it now the wit and humor of oscar wilde but he has many of his wonderful one-liners from his plays and writings, from his dinner table conversations in london , organized by topic. the nature of men and women, etc. it's just this skating uncompromising qual