The twentieth century was something, wasn't it?&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Margaret Mead</a>, as well as her onetime-husband&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gregory Bateson</a>, managed to play roles in several of its key developments: social anthropology and its impact on sex & gender mores, psychedelic drugs and their potential use for therapeutic purposes, and the origin of cybernetics, to name a few. Benjamin Breen discusses this impactful trajectory in his new book,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/benjamin-breen/tripping-on-utopia/9781538722374/?lens=grand-central-publishing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science</a>. We talk about Mead and Bateson, the early development of psychedelic drugs, and how the possibility of a realistic utopia didn't always seem so far away.Blog post with transcript: <a href="https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/02/26/267-benjamin-breen-on-margaret-mead-psychedelics-and-utopia/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/02/26/267-benjamin-breen-on-margaret-mead-psychedelics-and-utopia/</a>Support Mindscape on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>.Benjamin Breen received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his awards are the National Endowment for the Humanities Award for Faculty and the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine. He writes on Substack at&nbsp;<a href="https://resobscura.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Res Obscura</a>.<ul><li><a href="https://benjaminpbreen.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Web site</a></li><li><a href="https://humanities.ucsc.edu/academics/faculty/index.php?uid=bebreen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UCSC web page</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Breen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Benjamin-Breen/author/B07ZJTGJSZ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon author page</a></li></ul>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia

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