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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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When I first read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which I would recommend to everyone as a brilliant journalistic anthropological investigation into what became the psychedelic culture in the early 1960s.
Jordan Peterson · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Jun 2021 Listen at 2:14 What they say about it
- Discussing the book's enduring legacy“people are going to be reading”2
- Rereading the classic text“I reread The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”2
The best things said about it
I think several the books I think people are going to be reading the electric coate acid test for as long as people are reading books.
That's a great book.
Jordan Peterson The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2022 I reread The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test recently and it struck me just the similarities, the clownishness, the absurdity, the certainty of these people.
Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic · Oct 2024 Tom Wolfe's estate reached out and they asked if I would write a new intro to The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic · Aug 2023 Where and when it comes up
Mentions per year
How it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
6 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe is a classic work of New Journalism chronicling Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and their psychedelic adventures across America in the 1960s. Critic Dwight Garner praised the book on The Book Review, predicting that people will continue reading it for as long as books exist. Jordan Peterson recommended the text on both The Joe Rogan Experience and The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, describing it as a brilliant journalistic and anthropological investigation into the early psychedelic culture centered around Timothy Leary. Ryan Holiday mentioned on The Daily Stoic that Tom Wolfe's estate asked him to write a new introduction for the book, and he noted that rereading it struck him with the parallels between the clownishness and absurdity of the 1960s psychedelic scene and modern internet culture. Rich Cohen also discussed the reporting behind the book on The Daily Stoic, while Matt Taibbi referenced the work during a conversation about narrative journalism on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast.
Every mention
Jordan Peterson when i first read the electric kool-aid acid test which i would recommend to everyone as a brilliant journa… 2
“that's electric kool-aid man that's a great book”
“when i first read the electric kool-aid acid test which i would recommend to everyone as a brilliant journalistic anthropological investigation into what became the psychedelic culture in the early 1960s”
Dwight Garner I think several the books I think people are going to be reading the electric coate acid test for as long a… 2
“um and reading books like the electri coate acid test about the bus and Ken key so different from his pieces about say Lena Bernstein and maing the FL catchers”
“I think several the books I think people are going to be reading the electric coate acid test for as long as people are reading books”
Ryan Holiday she wrote some fascinating essays on the Psychedelic scene in the 60s and Tom Wolf did too and I reread the… 2
“she wrote some fascinating essays on the Psychedelic scene in the 60s and Tom Wolf did too and I reread the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test recently and it struck me just the similarities the clownishness the absurdity the certainty of these people”
“Um but actually I don't know if I should say this, but Tom Wolfe's estate reached out and they asked if I would write a new intro to The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Have you read that book? No, I haven't. So in like the '60s Tom Wolfe wrote this book about Timothy Leary and like his band of merry”
Matt Taibbi no no no U no no no uh like the Kool-Aid Acid Test yep yes exactly 1
“no no no U no no no uh like the Kool-Aid Acid Test yep yes exactly”
Rich Cohen He gave Tom Wolf all the stuff, the reporting that became electrocolate acid test. 1
“He gave Tom Wolf all the stuff, the reporting that became electrocolate acid test.”
Timothy Denevi okay to recreate that scene in electric kool-aid acid test 1
“okay to recreate that scene in electric kool-aid acid test”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“it's like something out of electric kool-aid test with uh thomas wolfe”