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This post refers to a recent interview with Danny, Georgi and Ray named #30: LSD, Serotonin, and Hallucinations | PUFA and Lipofuscin | Strategy of Tension | William Blake at 23:11 - Ray's experience with racism.
"I took a couple of trips into and through the southern states in 1960 and 1964 and even though I thought of myself as being a white person, I was for some reason seen by the natives as atleast as dangerous as a black person. I am not sure what is was but I narrowly escaped getting killed a couple of times once of each trip and after the second time I stayed away for 30 years, I just saw it as one of the worst sort of sadistic xenophobia" - Ray Peat
"Something about my face or manor made them want to kill me." Ray Peat
"Um it must have been I had an out of state drivers licence and fat side burns probably dressed in an unconventional way, I am not sure. you could see the hatred emanating when I would stop at a gas station or something." Ray Peat
"It was a culture total obedience to some mysterious standard of being " Ray Peat.
A few weeks ago I watched the film Easy Rider 1969, the film was about two men representing the freedom of being American, traveling through the south in the 60's and inevitably facing what Ray really experienced. It had an impact on me as what Ray said came into my mind.
I perceived the film as representing that most people like the idea of freedom but are not free at all and when they come by someone who is free, it threatens them deeply as they have to be confronted that they are not free and are imprisoned by the culture.
The film stars Henry Fonda who is the producer and Dennis Hopper who is the director also Jack Nicholson. The men did a fantastic job of this film and must have personally been heavily apart of the culture in the 60s to have such an insight and have fat side burns, are they blue blocking sunglasses?
Link to the interview where the quotes came from:
"I took a couple of trips into and through the southern states in 1960 and 1964 and even though I thought of myself as being a white person, I was for some reason seen by the natives as atleast as dangerous as a black person. I am not sure what is was but I narrowly escaped getting killed a couple of times once of each trip and after the second time I stayed away for 30 years, I just saw it as one of the worst sort of sadistic xenophobia" - Ray Peat
"Something about my face or manor made them want to kill me." Ray Peat
"Um it must have been I had an out of state drivers licence and fat side burns probably dressed in an unconventional way, I am not sure. you could see the hatred emanating when I would stop at a gas station or something." Ray Peat
"It was a culture total obedience to some mysterious standard of being " Ray Peat.
A few weeks ago I watched the film Easy Rider 1969, the film was about two men representing the freedom of being American, traveling through the south in the 60's and inevitably facing what Ray really experienced. It had an impact on me as what Ray said came into my mind.
I perceived the film as representing that most people like the idea of freedom but are not free at all and when they come by someone who is free, it threatens them deeply as they have to be confronted that they are not free and are imprisoned by the culture.
The film stars Henry Fonda who is the producer and Dennis Hopper who is the director also Jack Nicholson. The men did a fantastic job of this film and must have personally been heavily apart of the culture in the 60s to have such an insight and have fat side burns, are they blue blocking sunglasses?
Link to the interview where the quotes came from: