He crashed around America, selling consciousness expansion without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all those people who took him seriously.
10 seconds sound clip from the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:50:54 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Too weird to live and too rare to die.
- There you stood on the edge of your feather expecting to fly.
- We're all wired into a survival trip now.
- No more of the speed that fueled the '60s.
- That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip.
- But their loss and failure is ours too.
- What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create.
[...]