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That Silicon Valley is down the road from San Francisco is the simplest explanation. The computer revolution and the psychedelic revolution happened almost conc
by ipnon 5y ago
That Silicon Valley is down the road from San Francisco is the simplest explanation. The computer revolution and the psychedelic revolution happened almost concurrently in nearly the same place. N+1 Magazine had a great article called Googlebang, which I cannot find now, describing the phenomenon of the Internet being a radical space filled with pornography, occultism, and drug information because the Internet inherited the culture of Northern California where it was born instead of the rest of the world where it spread.
- pmoriarty 5y agoI'm not sure if that alone explains it as there are probably plenty of people in the SF Bay Area that have never tried and have no interest in psychedelics. I wish it wasn't so, but except maybe during the heyday of psychedelia in the 60's when LSD was legal, psychedelic users even in the SF Bay Area have probably been in the minority. My guess is that it takes a certain type to have tried psychedelics after they were made illegal and before the Psychedelic Renaissance. It took a certain amount of curiosity, daring, and non-conformity that most people don't have.