Peter Thiel
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I knew Tom Wolfe, the American novelist. I still think his greatest novel was... The electric Kool-Aid acid test, which is sort of this history of the LSD counterculture movement, starts at Stanford, moves to Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. But it starts with Ken Kesey as a grad student at Stanford circa 1958.
And you get an extra $75 a day if you go to the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital and they give you some random drug. And, yeah, he got an extra $75 as a grad student in English doing LSD. And Tom Wolfe writes this, you know, iconic fictionalized novel, very realistic, 1968 about this. And Wolfe could not have imagined. that the whole thing started as some CIA mind control project. Right.
And you get an extra $75 a day if you go to the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital and they give you some random drug. And, yeah, he got an extra $75 as a grad student in English doing LSD. And Tom Wolfe writes this, you know, iconic fictionalized novel, very realistic, 1968 about this. And Wolfe could not have imagined. that the whole thing started as some CIA mind control project. Right.
And you get an extra $75 a day if you go to the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital and they give you some random drug. And, yeah, he got an extra $75 as a grad student in English doing LSD. And Tom Wolfe writes this, you know, iconic fictionalized novel, very realistic, 1968 about this. And Wolfe could not have imagined. that the whole thing started as some CIA mind control project. Right.
The Menlo Park Veterans Hospital that was deep state adjacent. Sure.
The Menlo Park Veterans Hospital that was deep state adjacent. Sure.
The Menlo Park Veterans Hospital that was deep state adjacent. Sure.
Sure, that's even crazier.
Sure, that's even crazier.
Sure, that's even crazier.
Well, it's the RFK dad assassination in 1960.
Well, it's the RFK dad assassination in 1960.
Well, it's the RFK dad assassination in 1960.
Where he, again, maybe you shouldn't believe him, but he claimed that he didn't even know what he was doing. It was some sort of hypnotic trance or whatever. And it was like the assassin in the Manchurian candidate.
Where he, again, maybe you shouldn't believe him, but he claimed that he didn't even know what he was doing. It was some sort of hypnotic trance or whatever. And it was like the assassin in the Manchurian candidate.
Where he, again, maybe you shouldn't believe him, but he claimed that he didn't even know what he was doing. It was some sort of hypnotic trance or whatever. And it was like the assassin in the Manchurian candidate.
Well, it's obviously also convenient.