tune in, turn on, drop out

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Etymology[edit]

1960s counterculture slogan popularized by Timothy Leary and attributed to Marshall McLuhan.

Phrase[edit]

tune in, turn on, drop out

  1. Pay attention to the new way of living; go within yourself, take drugs; abandon the established ways and stop conforming.
    • 2018 August 23, Kara Swisher, “How and Why Silicon Valley Gets High”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN:
      That research might eventually move the category of drugs from their turn-on-tune-in-drop-out heyday in counterculture San Francisco to the mainstream.

Usage notes[edit]

According to Leary, the original form is turn on, tune in, drop out.[1][2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Timothy Leary (1983) Flashbacks, New York: Putnam, published 1990, →ISBN, page 253: “Dripping wet, with a towel around my waist, I walked to the study and wrote down this phrase: “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.””
  2. ^ “Leary's Legacy Is, Like, Flipped, Man”, in The New York Times‎[1], 1996 June 9, →ISSN

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