Guest speaker: Dr. Timothy Leary

[NOTE: All quotations are by Dr. Timothy Leary.]

"So to me, that Summer of Love [1967] was kind of a coming out party, a coming of age party, of the first wave, the first year of the baby boom [when the first boomers turned 21]."

"It’s kind of interesting that the military, and the police, and these bureaucrats, they live in a germ-free society. They live in shells of bureaucratic boot kissing."

"I’m very much against addicts and drug fuck-ups."

"At those moments in human history where it’s time for our species to confront a new reality, whether it’s going from four foot to two foot, or it’s to make love face-to-face or whatever, there’s a certain breed of human beings in every gene pool who come along at that time and make us feel comfortable. They explain, they personalize, they popularize what’s really happening. Now you know who these people are. They are the artists, the musicians, the playwrights, the poets, the myth makers, the wizards, the jugglers, the story tellers, the crazed scientist, the mischievous physicist, you know who they are. In every epic of human history these people come along."

"So finally we catch on, it’s the governments that cause all the fuck-ups."

"It doesn’t do any good to think for yourself if you don’t know how to think."

"They say, never mind about politics or economics or religion, it’s language that controls society and that controls the individual. And who controls the language controls everything. … If you control the language, and the technology of the language, you control the mind."

"The personal computer allows you to do exactly what these French philosophers say we gotta do, control your own screen."

"The real message I get from the 20th century is learn how to be cyber-hip."

"Literacy my friends is the oppressive chains of the educated middle class."

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Superintelligence Seminar – Recorded 5/19/85 TAPE 1

Superintelligence Seminar – Recorded 5/19/85 TAPE 2

Superintelligence Seminar – Recorded 5/19/85 TAPE 3

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