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Neal Cassady drove their bus.
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When they came to the Vietnam Day at the Berkeley campus,
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Kesey addressed the assembled people saying, "Turn your back on the war.
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Look at the war, turn your back on the war and say 'fuck it.'"
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This is a group of people he was addressing
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who were intent on doing something to stop the war,
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and this was Kesey's response.
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That moment, for me, embodies this tension right at the center of the 1960s,
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a tension between countercultural self-development and an ethos of play,
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"drop out, tune in," and (I can't remember Kesey's little motto).
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Essentially, leave the institutional life of America--
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that means schools, government, politics,