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Originally Posted by JWsleep
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This is what I relate it to most:
The idiomatic expression, “drinking the Kool-Aid”, was originally a reference to the
Merry Pranksters, a group of people associated with novelist
Ken Kesey who, in the early 1960s, travelled around the United States and held events called “
Acid Tests”, where
LSD-laced Kool-Aid was passed out to the public (LSD was legal at that time). Those who drank the “Kool-Aid” passed the “Acid Test”. “Drinking the Kool-Aid” in that context meant accepting the LSD drug culture, and the Pranksters’ “turned on” point of view. These events were described in
Tom Wolfe’s 1968 classic,
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
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Kool-Aid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia