LUH 3417
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I was listening to the Gnostic Media podcast where Kesey is mentioned. The charge against Kesey is that in making a Native American the hero of the book, Kesey is promoting a reversion to primitivism, in the same way McKenna promoted the archaic revival. That's a pretty weak connection for claiming someone is an agent, but then again how did the pranksters just manage to get a bus and drive cross country doing very ridiculous things? I asked a friend about this and was told that Kesey was paid to write about the pranksters and to also film them. My friend also suggested that they were not just a random group of thrill seeking young people.The Jan Irvin article:
He stating that Key Kesey was an employee of a CIA program. He never calls him an agent, but a serious charge nonetheless.
If you follow that footnote you will find that it simply takes you to Kesey's New York Times obituary. No mention of the CIA is made by The New York Times in that article. I have seen nothing indicating that Kesey was ever paid by the CIA besides the $75 he got from being a one-time LSD guinea pig.†
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest was a seriously good book. I can't see how this would advance the CIA's agenda. Jan Irvin seems to seriously berate anyone in the comment section for challenging him. He uses profanity in all caps and is constantly hyperlinking his trivium ***t, ostensibly both as an appeal to authority and for self-promotion.
Jan Irvin has written a 2,800 page book on Albert Einstein. Here are some quotes by someone* who has glanced over it:
*An Open Letter to Jan Irvin – Allan C. Weisbecker
†Ken Kesey: Government Guinea Pig?