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Trickster Jumps Sides: Disruption and the Anatomy of Culture

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The Reverse Order of the Pioneers

Merry pranksters were founded by young author ken keasey, who wrote the opening scenes if one flew over the cuckoo's nest. While high on paote, keesey participated in a government funded study of lsd at stanford and had his mind blown wide open. He wanted to see what would happen when hallucinagenic inspired spontaneity confronted what he saw as the banality and conformity of american society. So they painted a big bus and named it further, which epitomized the mary prankster's goal,. A destination that could be reached only through the expansion of one's own perception of reality. This is classic trickster.

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