Discussion about this post

User's avatar
heraclitean's avatar

The point you made about the military side of things is crucial for everyone to grasp. The importance of Laurel Canyon. from Frank Zappa to Thomas Pynchon is very important for people to unravel in order for everyone to understand the power games undercutting the social dimensions of this "unwritten history". I would go as far as to suggest a book which I can imagine no other better writer than you - a spiritual counterpart to Cyberia, with its youthful energy and idealism - a colder, more mature, much needed history, suggested title "No One Here Gets Out Alive - Cyberia's Unwritten History" - an expose of all the facts that skipped everyone's attention both in the 60s and the 90s, covering Zeitgeist-defining but overlooked technological and psychedelic trends beginning in the early 20th century and blossoming in present time. I would recommend a "thoughtform", "archetype"-based approach of analysis: from the etymology of "cybernetics", the words Jim Morrison said at the Matrix club in between songs, sci-fi terms like "scanner", all within the context of the interesting timings of the emergence of psychedelics and computer technology and the curious way in which they spread. Imagine it as a sort of fugue of cross-decade tidbits of undercurrents of people, movies, books, music, patents and tech that are underpinned by the power groups that survived all these decades and ultimately managed and profited from these trends and from their "chaotic attractors" remaining secret.

Expand full comment

No posts