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    Timothy Leary

    Evolution of Countercultures

    BEATS
    (1950-1965)
    Mood:
    Aesthetic-Erotics:
    Attitude:
    Brain-Tech:
    Intellectual Viewpoint:
    Humanist Quotient:
    Politics:
    Cosmic View:    		 Cool, laid back.
           Artistic, literate, hip. Interested in poetry, drugs, jazz.
    
       Sarcastic, cynical.
    
       Low-tech, but early psychedelic explorers.
    
       Well-informed, skeptical, street-smart.
    
       Tolerant of race and gay rights, but often male chauvinist.
    
       Bohemian, anti-Establishment.
    Romantic pessimism, Buddhist cosmology.
    HIPPIES
    (1965-1975)
    Mood:
           Aesthetic-Erotics:
    
       Attitude:
    
       Brain-Tech:
    

           Intellectual Viewpoint:
    
       Humanist Quotient:
    
       Politics:
    Cosmic View:    		 Blissed out.
           Earthy, horny, free-love oriented. Pot, LSD, acid rock.
    

           Peaceful, idealistic.
    
       Psychedelic, but anti-high-tech.
    
       Know-it-all, anti-intellectual.
    
       Male chauvinist, sometimes sexist, but socially tolerant and global village 
       visionary.
    
       Classless, irreverent, passivist, but occasionally activist.
    
       Acceptance of chaotic nature of universe, but via Hindu passivity. Unscientific,
    occult minded, intuitive.
      CYBERPUNKS
    (1975-1990)
    Mood:
           Aesthetic-Erotics:
    
       Attitude:
    
       Brain-Tech:
    
       Intellectual Viewpoint:
    

           Humanist Quotient:
    
       Politics:
    Cosmic View:    		 Gloomy. Hip, but downbeat.
           Leather and grunge, tattoos, piercings. Hard drugs, psychedelics, smart 
       drugs. From rock to metal to rap.
    
       Angry, cynical, feel undervalued by elders.
    

           High-tech electronic.
    
       Informed, open-minded, irreverent. Inundated with electronic signals.
    
       Non-sexist, ecological, global minded.
    
       Alienated, skeptical.
    Pessimistic, but closet hope fiends.
       
     

    NEW BREED
    (1990-2005)
    Mood:
           Aesthetic-Erotics:
    
       Attitude:
    
       Brain-Tech:
    
       Intellectual Viewpoint:
    

           Humanist Quotient:
    
       Politics:
    Cosmic View:    		 Alert, cheerful.
           Invention of personal style. Eclectic. Prefer techno and ambient music.
    
       Self-confident.
    

           Psychedelic, super high-tech. Smart drugs, brain machines, Internet.
    
       Informed, open-minded, irreverent.
    
       Tolerant, non-sexist, ecological, global.
    
       Detached, individualistic. Zen opportunists.
    Acceptance of complexity, willingness to be a "chaos designer."

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