Very interesting-looking article. I will read it closely later this morning. In the meantime . . . Max Weber dug Otto Gross. That's a relationship worth exploring via the link.

Referring to "The Origins of the Counterculture" essay, what is it about Switzerland that has made it a hub for drugs, the home of Sandoz, Albert Hofmann's lab for the synthesis of Psilocybin and LSD, as well as a destination for drug aficionados of all tastes? It's also been called by various wise guys a "utopia." I suppose it's the great natural beauty and concentration of wealth and history of political neutrality.

Getting away from the roots of Postmodernism, I'd say the cultural upheaval of the '60s included a corruption of the "human potential movement" brought about by the advent of half-baked new-age ideas disseminated in large part by the CIA to discredit any legitimate or healthy Psychedelian spiritual practices, giving advantage to crackpots like Jean Huston, Tim Leary, and Terence McKenna, lumping them together with genuine philosophers with useful insights like Alan Watts and Art Kleps.

Leary and his stupid politics didn't help matters, either.

Just that link alone is huge drop of lore with names, books and facts. But through it all it all comes down to one thing:

About people who refuse to aspire to be anything more than fuck animals and only participate in the society to tear it down so that everyone will become fuck animals.

The origins are irrelevant if they do not have somewhere to take hold. We all know that was done in academia, the media, and entertainment. I'm not discounting the esoteric history, just that it's a rabbit hole you can easily get lost in and have no connection to reality.