Throughout history, people have always been discriminated against, whether it be because of race, orientation, or gender. Even some of the most influential people of the sixties, a decade dedicated to people empowering the ideas of peace and love, were caught discriminating against other groups of people. For example, Ken Kesey was a man who, although considered himself "too old to be a hippie", was one of the most persuasive contributors to the spark of the hippie movement. He preached his views against the concepts of the mainstream American lifestyle, supporting the notions of people exploring and accepting more nontraditional subcultures. As he was such an adamant supporter of this evolution, it was quite a shock that he was personally …show more content…
They upgraded the interior and exterior by using vibrant blacklight supplies to paint various psychedelic portraits and random patterns. They used the bus as their method of transport on their road trip from California, to New York. The bus was named "Furthur," as a symbolic one word phrase meaning that the bus would still be going, even when it broke down. The majority of the trip was filmed by Kesey. These clips gave the viewers a better understanding of what it was really like to be one of the Merry Pranksters. Many of Kesey's popular "Acid Tests" were caught on tape. These visuals showed the Pranksters and local townsmen experimenting with various psychedelics. It was a party-like atmosphere with multicolored strobe lights, hallucinatory noises and sounds, and other psychotropic effects. This experience inspired writer, Tom Wolfe, to create, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The 1968 book invented a new style of writing called New Journalism. The author wrote of his first-hand experience Furthur, after accidentally chugging down a few cups of acid laced Kool-Aid. Although the non-fiction piece gave another perspective of what it was like to be a Merry Prankster, Wolfe's stories were neither shocking nor unexpected. They confirmed the rumors and ideas of Ken Kesey being an older trip-master, who was still considered a