From a recent post of mine quoting christopher knowles work

It's hard now to imagine, but the technocratic world we live in today was largely created and designed in a very small chunk of real estate (specifically the strip of central/north California stretching from Big Sur to the Bay Area) in a very short period of time (the mid 60s to the mid 80s). Alongside the development of nearly every single technological development that defines our lives today-- "the rational," allegedly -- was a roiling cauldron of mind-staggering irrationality: LSD, mind-control cults, mystics, madmen, psychics, saucer freaks, and Satanists, to name just a few.