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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 118 Glimpses of clarity Nonetheless, concerning the positive aspects of cocaine, it can be mentally enhancing partly because of its repression of fear. For fears, as mentioned, are both of the helpful-cautionary as well as the oppressive types. Being released from the oppressiveness of fears, being freed of the constraints of “fearful thinking,” can result in seeing one’s reality more clearly. Feeling fearless can lead one to acknowledging truths and realities normally defended against — thus being therapeutic even, getting a glimpse of reality outside one’s fears. Reckless Being freed from normal caution, however, can lead one into reckless activities with consequences far beyond one’s ability to handle in either a normal, or drugged, state. It is no coincidence that these stimulant drugs have seen heavy usage by wartime participants — notable are their use by fighter pilots and by American warriors in Vietnam. A land of empathy and insensitivity
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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 94 That perception of alienation, dismal existentialism, and the futility of personal connection was happening earlier, also, with the beatniks, along with the marijuana use of the Fifties. What follows from this perception is the conclusion that people are basically “phony,” or “plastic;” that life is unreal. One perceives that ordinary motivations in pursuit of normal social values such as achievement, status/popularity, and pleasing appearance are meaningless rituals — games — that are totally irrelevant to the true nature of one’s being or reality. And one can see oneself as being trapped in this prison of unconscious scripts, with no chance of release or true perception of reality. The “Beats” — “Phony Baloney,” So, “YOU do it!” The “Beat Generation” of the Fifties — especially those referred to as “beatniks” — used marijuana and caffeine, predominantly. Their culture included the rise of existential belief, the glorification and…
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One does not feel constrained by normal fears or apprehensions, so one throws oneself into new activities with reckless abandon. One feels overly confident in one’s abilities and engages in all kinds of risk-taking — financially, sexually, interpersonally, legally. Later, we would find out, politically. These activities have one embarking on dubious schemes which rarely pan out. A land of light and darkness Despite these negatives, the corollary of this mental activity is that one’s ability to think and see more clearly on some issues is enhanced, precisely because one’s fears can pollute one’s perception and apprehension of things. It is enlightening to remember that Sigmund Freud, among other notables in history, experimented with cocaine. At one point, Freud was heartily endorsing its use to his colleagues; he was waxing expansively about its benefits for mental life and clarity of consciousness. “Waxing expansively” does happen to be one of the things one does on cocaine, incidentally. Of course, Freud changed his position on cocaine’s benefits later. No doubt his use led him to see its face of darkness as well. 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 117
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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 94 …arise, for persons who — perhaps because they are young, or whatever — are unusually undefended, more sensitive, and more open to actual reality. In this state of heightened awareness of the inner world of oneself and others, one perceives oneself and others as puppets or windup dolls. One can become aware of one’s actions as pathetically seeking to satisfy very old needs, which are totally irrelevant to the present context, with others who are similarly and robot-like also seeking to satisfy very different past deprivations. In common parlance, it is said that most actions of people are just “games.” Hence, part of the horrifying nature of this perception, on the recollective-analytic level of awareness, is that indeed people are not truly relating to each other at all, that they are “like people trapped in spacesuits trying to communicate with each other through the layers of barriers between them.” That last is the way one Sixties Generation member described communication between people, as reported in a book by Kenneth Keniston titled The Uncommitted (1963). That book delved into the psychology of the alienated, the non-conformist or hippie, segment of Sixties Youth. That perception of alienation, dismal existentialism, and the futility of personal connection was happening earlier, also, with the beatniks, along with the marijuana use of the Fifties.
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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 117 …amphetamine, uppers, “whites,” and so on. They repress Pain extraordinarily well. Building castles in the sky They are euphoriants and cause one to have the feeling that one’s mental capacities are expanded. One feels that one can envision projects and outcomes precisely. So, one expends oneself in organizing and preparing for great achievements, which rarely are embarked upon. Free from fear, reckless, overconfident, risk-taking Since these drugs repress Pain, creating an amped state of mind more than normally able to fend off unwanted emotional material, they repress the normally present residue of fear, with its attendant caution in the face of activities outside of one’s comfort zone requiring forethought and anticipation. One does not feel constrained by normal fears or apprehensions, so one throws oneself into new activities with reckless abandon. One feels overly confident in one’s abilities and engages in all kinds of risk-taking — financially, sexually, interpersonally, legally. Later, we would find out, politically. These activities have one embarking on dubious schemes which rarely pan out.
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*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema. Ch 6, p. 93

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Houston and termed the recollective-analytic. At this level, enhanced sensory experience opens the door, so to speak, to enhanced inner awareness. This enhanced inner awareness can include the awareness of the underlying motivations of oneself and others, and this is mostly not pretty. However, this angst is actually part of the Ego death that becomes more important with the psychedelics. Let me explain: Because the normal person is motivated mostly by past, or primal, pains or traumas and is acting out scripts or roles that are pathetic attempts to re-create or struggle with events that happened a long time ago, the normal person is not really in the present. The person is, as the great religions have described it, in ignorance, in samsara, in dukkha, and is basically unreal. The person, as humanistic psychologists have described, is inauthentic and is acting out games or scripts, about which they are totally unconscious. They have identified with these scripts, roles, goals, and motivations — the outgrowth of a completely unique set of past experiences of primal pain and trauma — and haven’t a clue as to their arbitrary character. Let alone do they realize that other people are similarly acting out their own unique roles which are just as arbitrary and, well yes actually, pathetic. However, pot, just like LSD, can eventually open one to the horrifying perception of the inauthentic and unreal nature of ordinary social behavior. Sometimes even with initial usage can this perception… 6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 93
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I deal with this issue of differing designations for the generations depending on whether it is arbitrarily set by the Census Bureau or it represents a true generation in being folks who were shaped by the same events in much detail later in this work. For now, I wish to simply note that in this chapter we will, following Strauss and Howe, be talking about those born from the year 1961 through the year 1980. Drugs and Generations That said, let us look now at that ricocheting of cultural mores and minds between the poles of liberal/conservative, open-minded/closed- minded, idealism/conformity, democratic/authoritarian, and expressive/ repressive. Again, I contend that the changes in the drug usage between those used by Sixties youth and those used by Gen X youth, because of their effects, are not coincidental to those pendulum swings in national direction. I’ll explain… Drug Effects — Cocaine, Speed Drugs in the amphetamine class are stimulants. This includes cocaine, methamphetamine, “meth,” “crystal,” crack cocaine, “crack,” “speed,”… PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 116
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6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 93 However, the effects of marijuana are complex because they do not as consistently open one to inner realities as does LSD. Pot opens or enhances one’s experience of the sensory world initially. As long as it does just this, it can be used as a drug of avoidance of painful (inner) reality in the same way alcohol and nicotine are. That is, one with sufficient repression and defenses can use marijuana to flee from inner pain, depression, or whatever, into an enhanced, pleasurable sensory world that does not trigger one’s pain. At this stage, only, pot can be used to defend against pain and can be psychologically addictive in providing a palliative to pain. Once again, it can do this because it serves only to “bend,” not bust, one’s defenses against one’s primal pain. Yet for some people this effect of marijuana changes with continued drug use. It is as if the continued “bending” of defenses can eventually lead to a “loosening” of them, and with that loosening comes the deeper level of experience described by Masters and Houston and termed the recollective-analytic. At this level, enhanced sensory experience opens the door, so to speak, to enhanced inner awareness.
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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 116 …or Boomer Generation — as those born between 1943 and 1960. This contrasts with the Census Bureau’s designation of the Boomers as being those born 1945 to 1965. And I repeat, this is because that group — those born between 1943 and 1960 — can be seen to have been shaped by the same national and cultural events growing up; whereas those born 1945 to 1965 do not have a common set of formational experiences. Generational theorists other than Strauss and Howe also see that period — born 1943 to 1965 — comprising different generational sets. Indeed, a special designation of Generation Jones has been suggested for those born between 1955 and 1965, because that period does have its unique set of cultural and historical markers, which lent themselves to creating the kind of personality that would develop. In either case — Gen X and Boomer — we see that the Census Bureau’s designations were arbitrary and were useless for any analytical purposes where such and such group could be said to share common characteristics. They didn’t. Generational theorists have had to alter the Census Bureau’s designation to make any sense of generational trends in our recent history. I deal with this issue of differing designations for the generations depending on whether it is arbitrarily set by the Census Bureau or it represents a true generation in being folks who were shaped by the same events in much detail later in this work.
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Which brings up another effect: Cannabis reduces one’s feelings of needing to achieve or to be goal- or achievement-oriented. The sensory world is that which is initially enhanced in the course of one’s experience with this drug; and the experience of the sensory world in its own right does not engage more complex, more “inward,” and more individually unique goals, feelings, scripts, dramas, scenarios, or motivations. Eventually Robert Masters and Jean Houston, in their book, The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience (1967/2000), provided an architecture of the psyche, derived from their study of the effects of LSD, that is useful in understanding what can happen eventually with continued use of marijuana. They conducted “depth soundings” of the LSD experience and discovered that there were four levels of the experience: the sensory, the recollective-analytic, the symbolic, and the integral. While marijuana is not as powerful in its effects as LSD, it has a similar effect on consciousness; one might say it acts in the same direction as LSD. In contrast to drugs like alcohol and nicotine, which serve to aid repression and to help to numb or reduce one’s perception of both inner and outer reality, both marijuana and LSD have the effect of opening or enhancing one’s awareness of inner and outer reality. PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 92
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Gen X, according to the Census Bureau, comprises those born 1965 to 1980. However, Strauss and Howe, in their book, Generations, points out that those born in those years do not constitute a true generation. A generation, for analytical or sociological purposes, is a group that shares the same formative experiences in their youth and childhood. If the group does not have much in common, how can it even be discussed as a “thing”? Compared to other “things”? With this in mind, Strauss and Howe — who represent the “gold standard” in generational theory — designate the 13th Generation, roughly comparable to the Census Bureau’s Gen X, as comprising those born between 1961 and 1980. The difference is the Census Bureau has Gen X beginning in 1965. For the very same reasons, Strauss and Howe designate the Vietnam Generation — roughly comparable to the Census Bureau’s Baby-Boomer… 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 115
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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 92 …noticed can be explored. One can seem to be experiencing something on many levels at once, or to be fully immersed in the experience so that aspects of it that formerly seemed more “walled off” from one can seem almost tangible in one’s ability to experience it. One can become so immersed in experience that complexities of it can be taken in and enjoyed, which one never even noticed before.1 Part of the reason for this type of effect of “pot” is that it lowers blood sugar and thus causes the normal cortical defenses to be less effective in blocking out experience. Related to this is a feeling of timelessness — a feeling of being in the Now — which can also be related to the diminished cortical functioning, which brain function is goal-oriented and related to linear time. Relatedly, marijuana fosters an alpha-wave state of consciousness — the state sought by meditators. Which brings up another effect: Cannabis reduces one’s feelings of needing to achieve or to be goal- or achievement-oriented. The sensory world is that which is initially enhanced in the course of one’s experience with this drug; and the experience of the sensory world in its own right does not engage more complex, more “inward,” and more individually unique goals, feelings, scripts, dramas, scenarios, or motivations.
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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 115 “...the drug use of Xers strayed back to the use of alcohol & cigarettes. These are the drugs used by their Fallow Generation parents....” “Alongside this ‘traditional’ drug use, Generation Xers are noted for their pessimism, defeatism, and fascination with death....” [Chapter 8 text begins:] First off, this swinging back and forth of attitudes is mirrored also in the drug usage of these generations: We go from repressive drugs such as alcohol and tobacco with the WWII Generation; to mind-expanding substances like marijuana and LSD for Sixties youth; back to suppressive drugs again with Gen X. For with this generation born 1961 to 1980, white was king, cocaine snowed down on all levels of society.
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Yet, feelings cannot be separated. And to repress feelings of Pain (i.e., primal pain) means also to repress the ability to be sensitive to other feelings. Hence highly defended or repressed persons can smoke marijuana and yet not “get off” or they may just feel feelings of relaxation. Janov has said that marijuana acts to kind of “bend” defenses, which allows repressed feelings to surface, for those who are not in the category described above, which would include the majority of people. Since we all have some degree of primal pain (Pain), we all have defenses to being fully feeling, so the effect of marijuana for most people is to open them to some of the pleasurable feelings that have gotten repressed along with the repression of Pain. Therefore, some widely noted effects of marijuana concern its enhancing sensory ability and therefore pleasure. Listening to music, being in Nature, watching a movie, or sex can all be quite enhanced and different while experienced under the influence of marijuana. Aspects of these experiences that were always there but were never… 6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 91
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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Pages 114-115 “...beginning in the Eighties, it became fashionable to sneer at and blame — often scapegoating — the more unfortunate ones of society: The poor, helpless, mentally ill, children, the powerless. It was as if Reagan emptied the mental hospitals onto the streets so as to have a target to feed to his rabid Right followers. Honestly, it worked. Americans were encouraged by the media and propaganda systems to find some time for that kind of hatred, for the poor and homeless, alongside their ongoing and outright snickering and smugness as directed at the ‘hippie-dippie’ values and ‘kumbaya’ visions of the generation older than them.”
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6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 91 Drug Effects — Marijuana The effects of marijuana are more diverse than those of alcohol and nicotine. Yet there are a number of things that can be said about its effects in general. The effects of marijuana are more subtle than the two drugs mentioned thus far. In fact, there are some people who cannot feel the effects of marijuana; and sometimes it takes several times of using it before one begins to realize its effects. Yet it is not an ineffectual or weak drug by any means. Initially The reasons why some people cannot feel marijuana’s effects appear to be related to their having very defended personality types, or, one might say they have a great deal of repression. The reason this would affect their ability to feel the drug’s effects are easy to understand when we consider the fact that repression of feelings of trauma would include repression of the ability to feel things in general. A repressed person is a more neurotic, more defended person; and more defended persons are basically defending against painful feelings.
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“[Yuppies] primarily comprised youth in their twenties and early thirties who followed behind the Vietnam-era Generation. Their mantram was to get rich, get powerful, erect and maintain ‘family islands’ which they saw as competitive with the rest of society — quite unlike the communitarianism of the Sixties Generation — and to retire early ... social and environmental problems be damned.” “...beginning in the Eighties, it became fashionable to sneer at and blame — often scapegoating — the more unfortunate ones of society: The poor, helpless, mentally ill,… PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 114
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“Republicans will then blame the mess they left behind on the Democrats who regain power, each time, after the economy has been trashed. For the electorate will put Democrats in office after every Republican financial calamity — Hoover’s Great Depression, cleaned up by Roosevelt; Reagan’s late Eighties, early Nineties recession, fixed by Bill Clinton; W. Bush’s Great Recession of 2008, corrected by Barrack Obama. Currently Joe Biden is tending successfully to the mess left us by Donald Trump. American’s financial house in order once again, the American electorate will be ripe to have their racism and hate stoked once again, directed at scapegoats, creating another Republican ascension. So the GOP can pick up on their thieving, again.” PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 114
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Not coincidentally, the drugs of use affecting the Fifties Generation subculture were quite different from those of the WWII Generation. It is my argument that this change in focus of drug use was not random but was part of the psychological maturation or evolution of the American populace. A more evolved generation, which was a result of the change in parenting practices, occurring over this time, sought better recreational drugs — ones that were not as much about denial and defensiveness but about openness and self- realization. I explain this evolution of child-caring practices and the resulting evolution of the American personality in others of my works. See especially my Apocalypse NO and Wounded Deer and Centaurs. In any case, with the Beats in 1950s America, marijuana, for the first time, began being influential in the culture, and the consciousness, America would create. Let us take a look at its effects and then at the events associated with this generation. PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 90
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“...this shift of wealth upward at Reagan’s time would only be the first of many of such Republican larcenies to come, as we saw with the financial policies of Republicans George W. Bush and Donald Trump. The fact that such trickle- down and such an upward shift of wealth leads to recessions, inevitably, would become an inconvenient truth that would be suppressed in the media’s narrative.” PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 114
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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 90 …sides of that. The Fifties Generation — termed Silent Generation by Strauss and Howe (1991) — is reserved for those born 1925 through 1942. Presley was born in 1935, smack in the middle. His music and his style were individualistic in the extreme. He would set off a rock and roll revolution, of sorts. Yet he was conforming as well; he allowed himself to be drafted into the Army. This is in contrast to Muhammad Ali who refused to be inducted. It is not coincidence Muhammad Ali was born 1942 and therefore, while a Fifties Generation member technically, he was on the Fifties Gen/ Sixties Gen cusp. Revolutionary numbers for the Fifties Generation were not large, relatively, yet in being the initiators of many of the evolutionary ideas that would come into fruition in the Sixties, these Fifties Generation members were extremely important. Meanwhile, the conforming side of the Fifties Generation would continue their alliance with outmoded and dangerous ideas as brought to them from their culture and their WWII Generation elders. The one side of the Fifties Generation would listen to the beatnik poetry and socially conscious folk songs of that era of the Fifties. The other side would be conforming “Mad men” (Madison Avenue men), corporate cogs.
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*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 114

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 114 “There are two aspects of trickle-down economics and the recession that followed Reagan’s implementation of it that are especially relevant here for a discussion of drugs and generational cultures. Those factors are the manic quality of the times — the go, go, go, buy, buy, buy mentality of the investing — and the other is the obvious proof it gave to marginal returns theory: In other words, the money, given to the rich, was valued little and was mindlessly blown on trivialities; it was said that the Eighties was a huge party for the rich.”
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[Chapter 6 text begins:] The Fifties Generation was bordered by the World War II Generation and the Sixties Generation, and it partook of qualities of both of those generations. Some conformed to and followed the WWII Generation mentality and some others, a lesser number, were radically individualistic free-thinkers and social experimenters; they would be forerunners to the generation succeeding them, the Sixties Generation. Enter the Beats This generation is exemplified by “the Beats” (beatniks); activists such as Jerry Rubin, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and Abbie Hoffman; political figures, such as Bernie Sanders, Jerry Brown, and Joe Biden; and literary figures such as Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and Lucien Carr. These free-thinking sorts were cast alongside the pervasive conforming mindset of the Fifties, which was embraced by the great majority of that generation. Yet this dual nature of the Fifties Generation was an influential template in creating the stark division that we see in America as the Culture War, today. Interestingly, the supreme American standout from that generation — Elvis Presley — would come down nicely on both… 6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 89
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6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 89 “The Sixties Generation — also called the Vietnam Generation and the Baby-Boomers — would make a complete break with the dominant culture. They would create a counterculture. They would redefine everything; they would seek to start everything over again, in view of the corruption and conformity they discovered all around them in the form of the establishment.”
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