I don't think that vibe was unique to drugs or the 60's, perhaps every generation gets that. For example, I feel the same way about the 90's Internet... It's

I don't think that vibe was unique to drugs or the 60's, perhaps every generation gets that. For example, I feel the same way about the 90's Internet... It's hard to explain the optimism a lot of people felt at the time. It seemed like it could fix the world, what if everyone could just talk to each other? Couldn't we fix the misunderstandings? We were gonna route around the censorship and cryptography (not crypto...) was going to free us from The Man. State control of "the message" through TV and newspapers was over. I look at what we got and there it is, human nature staring right back at me. Anyway, what a sap.