r/todayilearned • u/Melenduwir • 7d ago

TIL the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid", although associated with the Jonestown murder-suicides, actually originated in the Tom Wolfe book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" about Ken Kesey and the "Merry Pranksters". Jonestown actually used Flavor Aid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
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u/Still_Want_Mo 5d ago

Yes it has become that. It has evolved to have a dark meaning. It doesn’t have dark origins

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u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva 5d ago

please read my initial reply again

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u/Still_Want_Mo 5d ago

And read mine. I’m talking about the origin. You responded to me first

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u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva 5d ago

You: the phrase doesn’t have dark origin

Me: yeah but it has a dark meaning now

You: no, that came after

literally impossible to talk with some of you people

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u/Still_Want_Mo 5d ago

You’re stating the obvious by saying it’s meaning. Is. I have no interest in speaking on that. I think the origin is way cooler. That’s what I want to talk about.