This song was an indictment of Timothy Leary's Alternatives to Violence was published in August, 1968 anti-war essay that implied the violent anti-war groups like the SDS, Yippies, SLA, Weather Underground and other violent factions were really no different from Robert McNamara, General Westmorland and the entire US US defense induxtry.
The psychedelic musical effects in the song as the words about a spiritual leader (as Timothy Leary was, in spades at that point in history) implied that his LSD usage and suggestion the national youth movement should just drop acid and drop out of the fight was a taunt at non-violent means to alter the behavior of a government that was supposed to listen to We The People...
This song was an indictment of Timothy Leary's Alternatives to Violence was published in August, 1968 anti-war essay that implied the violent anti-war groups like the SDS, Yippies, SLA, Weather Underground and other violent factions were really no different from Robert McNamara, General Westmorland and the entire US US defense induxtry. The psychedelic musical effects in the song as the words about a spiritual leader (as Timothy Leary was, in spades at that point in history) implied that his LSD usage and suggestion the national youth movement should just drop acid and drop out of the fight was a taunt at non-violent means to alter the behavior of a government that was supposed to listen to We The People...