great artists love smashing traditions, and at his best, kesey was doing that.ite "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. i'd wonder what happened. they thought they were doing me a favor. >> they were having the world's fair in new york, so a bunch of us were going to go. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. ♪ >> kesey, he was going to put the bus in dayglow, bright colors and then go with what he called unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was you have to present something that is so different, there's a crack comes open where something new can come in. and the reaction to all these people was wonderful, because what it was in 1964, there was no other thing like this happening. >> it's part of a kind of cultural revolution going on, making the squares pay notice to this underground of america. ♪ >> when we got to new york city, which is the home of the beats, where kerouac lived, and pick

you have the electric kool—aid acid test, in on the bus with ken kesey and the pranksters, and i metave known anything about him that he was there with allen ginsberg, timothy leary, the whole thing. this one book and there is tom wolfe and whenever we talk about the 1960s we go back to these references and if you go back and realise you are talking about tom wolfe. in the 1970s he broke this fantastic essay, the me decade which she links together with everything and he said what he wa nted everything and he said what he wanted to do given a choice when it first began a journalist, do politics as all the posh guys wanted to do, but he said no i'm going to do all the things that people do not write about, see those little details. and write the beginning of this me decade this great essay that tells you all about the me generation, the religious cult scene, linking jimmy carter to meditation and everything. and he said the lowest paid worker in america in the mid—19 70s and about $8,000, that was roughly the same amount in and buy a columnist on the uk newspaper and he said you must r