Timothy Leary, "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out"

I recently learned about the Harvard psychology professor that promoted LSD and drug use in the 1960s, known as Timothy Leary. Leary coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out", to endorse LSD, and demonstrate how turning on one's brain to the hallucinating properties of the drug and tuning into its religious component, allowed one to "drop out" of the physical meaninglessness of reality. Regardless of my opinion regarding this marketing technique or even what it represented (I am repulsed that an educated man could dismiss the health side-effects of drugs in addition to their addictive qualities), in a way, this concept reminded me a bit the dichotomy of technology. Technology is great because of the information it can provide us, however are we not "tuning out" because of it, and perhaps disregarding the reality of our own environments? For instance, take video games, or sims, are we not living the lives we wish we could, rather than living them ourselves? Another example is TV. I believe something can be gained or learned from about 5% of the stuff that is on the tv, which means the vast majority of the time we watch TV we are not gaining anything from watching it, so why do we do it? Because we do not want to work on out lives, we want to see someone elses, or live vicariously through them. Isn't that why girls like romantic comedies ? They desperately want to believe men are as charming and good looking as they are in the movies, they want to essentially live through the movies. Sometimes, we utilize technology in the same way Leary was utilizing LSD and drugs; using it to escape the reality of our environments, despite the fact that its main function is to educate us on the reality of our situations.