one of the most common idioms out on the weg in the blogsphere this year is the phrase" too much kool- aid." I can only assume that this is a referent suggesting that the person to whom the blogger is posting a response, is being accused of having been under the influence of LSD, and too much LSD. I find this particularly interesting and would like to find out how this attained its connotive energies. Why is the right so interested and focussed on casting such dispersions, albeit, seriously misguided and wrong.
Was there such a thing as too much kool-aid in the old day? Given my own personal experience, and that of friends, we never really had any problem with too much kool-aid. Indeed the problem was too little. It was gone by the end of 1966, way too soon. If you were to study the archives of the Merry Pranksters you would discover that the incidents in which an individual experienced a negative psychedelic state were decidedly rare. Given the purity of the LSD, and the dosage levels(very high 200 to 500 mcgs) those using the kool-aid were very experienced. When one signifcantly increased the dosage for special ritual experimental purposes, 2000-5000 mcgs or more, the disconnect between consensual conceptual realities and that of the pure, substantive constantly perceiving experential reality did not preclude the ability to shift between them. There just wasn't the possibility of too much being too much. ONLY when individuals with previous or hidden psychological damage or mental illness used LSD did they experience psychotic episodes and/or breaks. These were very rare, yet much more highly publicized.
Studies using RockMed and the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic log reports found that there were less than .001% freakouts at events where inordinately large numbers of people were under the influence of LSD. The sheer fact that there is so little LSD available today in the culture, makes it almost impossible to acquire sufficient quantities to use too much kool-aid. This is the intent and purpose of the federal policies of the war on some drugs. There has been a decided, determined, huge effort to rid the population of access to LSD. More direct interdiction to LSD than to terrorism. WHY??
Because LSD reduces the conformity and acceptance of the pseudo-consensual corporate consumptive reality. When large groups of people stop consuming and start cooperative organizations, the powers that be lose all control over extracting resources from people and planet. This is bad for them. Thus they cannot afford there to be "too much kool-aid" out there. War is good, killing is good, extracting minerals is good, stupid cow herd populations of wage slaves is good. People who see through this are bad. Too much LSD makes people see through this= not good.
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