Monday, September 9, 2013

LSD: LETTWIN V. LEARY (MIT, 1967)

On May 3rd, 1967, Timothy Leary, in the height of his Marshall McLuhan-coached High Priest phase, debated psychiatrist and neurosurgeon Dr. Jerome Lettvin in MIT.  The debate was televised by WGBH -TV, gaining some notoriety for Lettvin's use of the word "Bullshit!"  Leary's performance is sometimes inspiring and incisive, and sometimes glib and rambling; Lettvin is certainly an energetic critic of Leary's hedonistic gospel.  A very entertaining cultural artifact of its time:




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