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Call Ken Babbs the Washington Irving of West Coast psychedelia. At 90 years old, the writer and Merry Prankster is still clear-eyed about what happened, and skeptical of what's been made of it since.

In a long view that spans Kesey's bus, the Acid Tests, the Grateful Dead, and the careful staging of chaos itself, Babbs talks about how a culture was improvised, documented, and later mythologized. There's no nostalgia here, and very little interest in the present-day wellness industry that now claims his era as origin story.

What emerges instead is a portrait of our beloved culture before it was a movement, a market, or a moral project; when it was closer to performance art than a policy debate, and when the work, as Babbs sees it now, was simply "to put on the show."

https://doubleblindmag.com/merry-prankster-tells-us-about-the-acid-tests-kesey-and-vietnam/