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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:14 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema. Ch 6, p. 95

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Yet such artistic renderings had a powerful impact on the culture in that they were contrary, were opposite of, the dominant conformism of the times, as exhibited in the WWII Generation as well as in their establishment-oriented Fifties Generation cohorts. These literary and artistic works set the stage for the revolutionary thinking and acting of the next generation to come on the scene, the Sixties Generation. 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. And they would continue the trend away from the Pain- repressing drugs of alcohol and tobacco and toward the ones that opened one to more aspects of reality, not less. The Sixties Generation would experiment further with mind-expanding drugs, including marijuana, mescalin, and magic mushrooms. And of course, they were influenced by this powerful new psychedelic — accidentally created and discovered in a lab — LSD. 6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 95
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 8:31 PM

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6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 95 … poetification of angst, and the belief that their contemporary society was characterized by alienation, conformism, inauthenticity, and, most tellingly, “phoniness.” The normal life of the World-War-Two Generation was seen as a “rat race,” motivated by such high ideals (sarcasm intended) as “keeping up with the Joneses,” and pervasive materialism and consumerism. Yet activism was not the beatnik’s predominant response to this perceived negative social context, as it would be only a generation later. Passivism, apathy, pessimism, and defeatism — masquerading often as existential insight — were the most common attitudes expressed. This is what one would expect as a result of marijuana and caffeine use. Nonetheless, art was deemed a weapon, however impotent, with which to rail against what seemed an overwhelming, huge mainstream ignorance or unconsciousness. So the apparent activism of that time in the Fifties is found in rebellious poetry, folk music, and fine arts of all kinds, especially literature, theater, painting, and some film. Yet such artistic renderings had a powerful impact on the culture in that they were contrary, were opposite of, the dominant conformism of the times, as exhibited in the WWII Generation as well as in their establishment-oriented Fifties Generation cohorts.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 6:27 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema. Chapter 6, p. 94

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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…
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 7:35 PM

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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.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 5:26 PM

*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
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 4:36 PM

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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.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 7:09 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 6, p. 92

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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
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 5:09 PM

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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.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 2:49 PM

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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
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:22 PM

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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.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 5:05 PM

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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
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 5:25 PM

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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.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 6:12 PM

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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
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 8:05 PM

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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.”