Talk:Psychedelic era

message: Lots of this article talks about social trends of the 60s that coincided with the rise of psychedelia, and I would argue that
A: the mentioning of such trends is rather POV... conservatives advocated blind faith?
B: many of these trends really didnt have much to do with psychedelia
I think that the linking of these trends with psychedelia is really only meant to provoke the hardliner anti-60s types who will inevitably react by saying "i hate psychedelia! and wait, it turns out that psychedelia is behind all the liberalism i that i hate as well! so it turns out its all the same beast!" come on, psychedelia is a matter of art and drugs and really nothing else. psychedelia doesnt sum up the "spirit" of the 60s, as this article implies.
--- I think it has everything to do with it. Art and music does not exist in isolation from politics, and the sixties saw a significant amount of work that was politically motivated. Furthermore, the psychedelic experiences brought on by LSD and other substances do enduce a kind temporary of dissolution of the ego which can be condusive to social thinking rather than individual self-interest. While perhaps many of the people leading the civil rights movement were not users or psychedelic drugs, others who may not have ordinarily participated in the socio-political movement of the time were influenced by both drug use and the political music and art which resulted. 
71.204.133.1 23:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  So what does this have to do with psychedelia? 

message: I added the tag to this article. Most of my objections seem to have been already brought up (and ignored) on this talk page. Looking through the history, it seems clear that there has been an unwillingness to proactively deal with any of the concerns raised. In addition to the article's unprovable assertion that "Psychedelic drug use encouraged unity, oneness, the breaking down of boundaries, the heightening of political awareness, empathy with others, and the questioning of authority.", and its broad and stereotyped characterization of various generations and what they were about, the article is also completely U.S. centric. Serpent-A 07:33, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The text in question is a paraphrase of several 60s documentaries specific to the psychedelic era.  It's not an "unprovable assertation" as there are piles of books stating and citing evidence for this.  I can cite references for you if you like, but it seems a little strange to complain that a statement about a particular era is too broad or sterotyped.  --Thoric 15:16, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

text: The proper course of action is to add  tags to questionable content.  So thus I shall revert, and add these tags myself, thank-you very much.  --Thoric 15:22, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: This was the articles description of the 1980's "A backlash of extreme conservatism advocated ignorance and blind faith in the powers that be."  I took this out because it is totally biased and not proffesional at all and is simply one persons highly subjective controversial opinion.
:Just one name to answer that... Reagan.  Both Mr. and Mrs. (especially Nancy).  Here's a nice quote from Ronald: A Hippie is someone who walks like Tarzan, looks like Jane and smells like Cheetah., and another from Nancy: The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.  --Thoric 16:28, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  not objective, unproffesional description of 1980's 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Psychedelic era's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "AllmusicPsych":
From Psychedelic music: V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop and Soul (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), , pp. 1322–3.
From Psychedelia: V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), , pp. 1322-3.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 04:10, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Good bot LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmission∆ °co-ords° 18:06, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Psychedelic era]]