[freebeard]

Somehow he saw the future (his handlers had planned all along) and it drove him mad to make bad personal choices.

edit: The reason I believe this is that when I was a freshman in collge I was placed in an honors English class. I think it was inadvertent. I was lost in the group think but mid-term the prof scoriated the class on their grammar and administed a test. I scored better than my peers. The whole class was about the French Existentialists, which I now see as an intro to the Frankfurt School of Marxism. Those Anti-fascists the Nazis ran out of Germany, who wound up on the California Coast loathing the blonde Surf Culture they found there.

So they were in the West Coast Universities in the 1960s.