Syd Barrett: Real Genius or Real Hype?

No..he just helped to program kids into taking it. He encouraged it and he was part of a scene that most youths respected. LSD is good for everyone was righteous to everyone at the time because young people didn't want to think like their parents....and their parents , (not all , but many), were from a different generation where many forms of logic were applied to many forms of upbringing. Upbringing, good or bad, applied the usage of the "so called" logical thing to do. The hippie generation was not about that mindset in many respects , but more particularly about the open minded attitude to try anything once and if the trip went well, then they might try it again and again to escalate into oblivion. In the end..it was discovered . (and unfortunately late in the game), that one tab of LSD could put a certain person in the mental ward...and for good in some cases...while others like Syd Barrett took too much.



 Brian Wilson took years to recover and yet now...his mannerisms are like that of a robot. He was actually much more together on the Mike Douglas Show, but as time progressed he slipped into this other person and quite unlike the one he was in 1965. Most of his drama in his youth added to the bad LSD trips, but it could add itself to anyone's trip and Leary apparently was not aware of this? Before he persuaded/influenced youths to take it? I find that hard to believe. Then the situation with Peter Green and Danny Kirwan at the Munich incident. Obviously these rich brats who invited Fleetwood Mac to this gathering were a cult. They worked on stripping Green and Kirwan of their identity after they took acid. Green and Kirwan were permanently mentally ill after that beautiful night of tripping with vamps. Frank Zappa tried to warn the youth to be careful with drugs and not be stupid and taking it for the purpose of a trend. "Were Only In It For The Money" explains much of that. Timothy Leary wasn't the only person responsible for promoting LSD, but he was questionable to me, like many of the cult leaders who were teenagers in the 50's and knew how to program hippies with apocalyptic Christian doctrine..

That's like calling me an extremist. I knew plenty of people in Vineland N.J. who claimed that Vineland had no trace of witchcraft or Satan worship, lived in total denial and yet there were several cult killings, kids disappearing, S.R.A. victims, front page news 3 to 4 times a week on an in depth investigation, and residents of Vineland would stand there and look you in the eye and deny that any of that ever occurred. 

'I have some LSD, you can have it if you like but I borrowed it.'

I don't mind psychedelia, I just don't like Syd Barrett and Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Apart from Matilda Mother, I love that song) 

 

I am calm...it's a statement that you are reading into too much.