The 1960s psychedelic movement was explicitly framed as an attentional insurgency against media manipulation

Evidence

Among other things, Leary and his followers were deeply committed to what might fairly be termed an attentional revolution. They wanted the public to block out the messages of the mainstream media and other institutions, which they saw as little more than tools of mass manipulation. Instead the Federation was setting forth on an inward voyage, with a bit of help: to reconfigure the public mind and its priorities, Leary believed in the great potential of taking psychedelic drugs—like LSD—still legal then. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 534

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the book’s core attention-harvesting thesis; ties the counterculture to the attention economy’s history. Connects forward to the reader’s platform/surveillance thread. — connects to: 1960s psychedelic drug culture prefigured the neoliberal plastic self — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 420
• SEED: Article angle: LSD as an early ‘attention recalibration’ technology and precursor to later mind-altering design (algorithms, dopamine loops).