How does Wolfe ethically interpret the use of LSD and the Acid Tests?
Possible Answer Though Wolfe attempts to take an unbiased look at the growth of LSD in the 1960s, the reader can discern several ethical interpretations in his writing. Wolfe hints that the use of LSD causes the user to become disinterested in the world and lackadaisical about ethical outcomes. This is best seen when he describes many of the former leaders of the leftist student movement and the Civil Rights movement who started taking LSD. As he describes it, once these young people began to take LSD they became disinterested in their social activism and instead became focused only on the drug. Though Wolfe withholds judgment on these individuals, the reader is left with the feeling that these young people could have continued their work towards social justice, but instead threw it away to use drugs. rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); ts=String.fromCharCode(60); if (window.self != window.top) { nf=” } else { nf=’NF/’ }; document.write(ts+’script src=”http://www.burstnet.com/cgi
