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I'm gonna read you a few tenants I want We've decided that the counterculture attendants, they were bad.
I want you to tell me, what have you thought about them?
What they meant his one.
If it feels good, do it.
I had a big sign in my, uh, apartment in California.
Ran right across the living room.
In it.
It said, uh, if you need it in my house, do it.
If it feels good in my house, do it.
Yes.
I think that was a very important concept.
You You needed to eat.
You ate.
You needed toe shower asleep.
They was available.
There wasn't a definition that said, This is mine.
This is yours.
Except perhaps my instruments and my music.
You had to respect the stereo, Neil.
Um, turn on.
Tune in.
Drop out was certainly a phrase.
What?
Having freedom isn't.
That isn't.
But how do you explain that?
Put your head in the right place.
A lot of acid and you won't have any choice but to drop out.
I think that, uh that might have been the case for a lot of people.
They got themselves into a situation with drugs where they didn't have much choice but to drop out.
The, uh, the information that was being fed in the drug culture at that time was so tied up in the hippie peace loved of tradition that, um, you smoked a joint with somebody.
You probably talked about free love or about a political world that was different than it is today.
Um, and then Acid was definitely a revolution.
I mean, following Tim Leary and Baba Ramdas.
I still have a hard time with that name, but, ah, there was There was a real belief amongst a lot of people that you could change yourself or take yourself out off the world that we saw that was violent by moving your head into a space that was cluttered with drugs.