TIMOTHY LEARY SOLD A GENERATION ON LSD WITH THE SAME TACTICS BIG FOOD SELLS US POISONOUS SUBSTANCES

Back in 1966, when professor Timothy Leary was launching himself as a psychedelic visionary, a media savvy friend gave him some advice: “The key to your work is advertising. You’re promoting a product. The new and improved accelerated brain. You must use the most current tactics for arousing consumer interest. Associate LSD with all the good things that the brain can produce—beauty, fun, philosophic wonder, religious revelation, increased intelligence, mystical romance. Word of mouth from satisfied consumers will help, but get your rock and roll friends to write jingles about the brain.”

O.K. this sounds vaguely familiar.

I find myself utterly amazed at the lies spewing out of the TV set. When I analyze these ads for factory food products, diets and drugs I see what this former ad-man told Leary all over them, promises of beauty, fun, philosophic wonder, religious revelation, increased intelligence and mystical romance.

The diabolical advertising of factory food, diets and drugs is made possible by the Food and Drug Administration that we taxpayers fund. This is an organization that’s been so corrupted by greed that it no longer serves to protect the consumer but is merely the beard of corporations that will say or do anything to get us to buy their products. The FDA is covered at length in DBS. Until then, just know that any factory food, diet or drug you see advertised on TV is fattening, toxic and might ultimately even kill you. Even if it does have a rock and roll jingle playing in the background.

Om Shanti,
Your girlfriend in health,

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