Diana Walsh Pasulka
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But he's getting something from a higher state.
And the wildest thing with people โ what I always want to tell people about Hendrix and a lot of the particularly impactful people from the 1960s is that you have to understand how different the 60s were from the 50s.
Like the difference between 2014 and 2024 is nil.
There's very little difference other than the ubiquitous โ
Technology, AI, things that are much more powerful than they ever were before, the impact of social media.
But there was an impact of social media even 10 years ago, right?
There's something about...
The 60s that were very different than the 50s.
And I connected to psychedelic use.
Because all of those people were doing psychedelics.
All those transcendent people.
When the Beatles, from their early days to the psychedelic days, it was a completely different band.
Like, completely different style of music.
Completely different impact.
There was something about it.
What had happened in the 1960s was...
A stunning revolution in culture.
And it's hard for us to understand it because we weren't teenagers when that was happening.