The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Takin' it to the Streets as Drug-influenced Literature

The art influenced by drugs faces a unique challenge from the main stream: to prove its legitimacy despite its "stain" origin. A mature cultural referee tends to overlook drug-related arts and artists as if it is a drug, and it is not an artist who creates them. This kind of confrontation is not that strong, but it is also in us today, building the foundation in the 1960s. In Beatnik, hippies and psychedelic movements are increasingly attracting the public's attention, and the influence of drugs on culture will no longer be ignored by the mainstream. In the days when rich drugs such as marijuana and cocaine were banned and sensational ...

Even seemingly innocuous things like "puffs" cite hostile politicalization of mainstream culture; it is impossible to imagine irony of artwork influenced by more serious (and more obvious) drugs It is not difficult.

In any case, artists influenced by drugs do not know the prejudice of drugs in mainstream society. The term "direct" is used by drug addicts to explain the general closure of mainstream culture to a very low extent. In the electric cool aid test, Tom Wolf contains an excerpt from part of Ken Kesey's letter explaining the concept of the general public of his career. "What is this," he said. "Is it possible for men to have a strong commitment to such a low state in such a short period of time? Well, the answer is in a sentence, my friend. You can easily use syllables for: Dope! "(5). Artists suffering from drugs like Casey do not doubt know what mainstream society thinks about them, and in many cases will try to change their ideas.

Electric cool aid test is a literary news work by Tom Wolf, depicting the life of Kenggy and Mary doodle. The title of this book is a reference to acid test in Watts, California, in which mischievous people stimulated Cool Aid's batch with psychedelic drug LSD in the 1960's.

LSD is a powerful psychedelic drug commonly called acid, blotting paper, california sunshine, dot, electric cool aid, and other countless color nicknames, and it began a turbulent year since the early 1960s. As street sale Leary suggests, it is an attractive (and sometimes frightening) effect on human biology, which creates a chemically derived spiritual quest that changes psychological and emotional perspectives. ... Unlike many medications that require good or bad smoking or injection, LSD is easy to ingest and is colorless, odorless, tasteless and consumed in small quantities (25 micrograms, or 0.00025 grams, 2 Less than the weight of one salt). I feel this effect. Today's dose usually appears on a small square absorbent paper called "ink blotting", so it's easy to hide.

In 1968, Tom Wolf announced an electric fool test. And, along with Huxley's "perception of things", it is a precious drug culture text. "In a short period of time, he and Lovell tried various drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, peyote, IT-290, super-amphetamine, Ditran, rogue, morning glory, etc. They found Menlo Park. The clinician himself has never imagined a wonderful satire here at all: it is said that White Smocks uses them.