Roots of Rendition (Albarelli & Kaye)

[Austin Kelley]

..I also want to reiterate here the fact that as far as social engineering,THE PLAN FAILED imho.The movement could not be engineered.It was too big and powerful.And the directions that it traveled,just like the Grateful Deads music,was basically improvisational.You cannot "control" what somebody improvises...

I see things as somewhere in between total success and total failure. Given that there was a rising tide of organizing whose goal was to profoundly change the institutions of society, I would say that the psychedelic subculture did make people somewhat less competent in achieving their political goals.

Of course nothing is absolutely black and white however.

The insurgent youth culture represented a compromise between the untamable power that pervaded the grassroots and the hierarchical power of the System and the ruling elite. Both have had their moments, though I don't think LSD changed the planet in the way that many once hoped.