What is the point, just out of interest ?
hey luke
well partially it's subjective, as with any psychedelic experience
but beyond that cop-out, your question was mostly answered upthread I think
60s psychedelic culture was about the opening up of possibilities
mostly for yr typical middle class white types, admittedly, tho it did eventually - like, decades on - filter down to other people and areas
the problem is conflating that with what is (mostly retroactively) termed "psych"
at the same time it was a liberatory culture, the psychedelic was a commercialized, monetized trend in the second half of the 60s
"psychedelic" as marketing
there's also the passage of time inevitably dulling culture/future shock, as has also been explored in this thread
things that were considered legitimately far out at the time come across to us as quaint, ridiculous, whatever