The rhetorical use of kairos in "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane"

"White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane was written by its singer Grace Slick in 1965, when she was twenty six years old. Slick had been living in San Francisco for several years at this point, which had become a gathering place for young people to come and try new things that had always been taboo, especially psychedelic drugs. Slick was heavily involved in the music club scene at the time, and thus participated in this new drug culture. The song, which describes the experience of being under LSD, is also a criticism of parents who expose their children to tales such as Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, that resemble a psychedelic trip, yet disapprove of such drugs. The kairos of this song comes from the timeliness of its message. When it was finally released in 1967, thousands of teenagers were flocking to San Francisco, leaving their disapproving parents. The message of this song works because it hit at the right time for an audience that felt disconnected from their parents and saw drugs such as LSD as a positive experience. Slick's message of frustrated and rebellious youth hits at the right time for her to be heard by the masses and truly have an impact through her words. Much of the songs power may have been lost had it been released three years earlier or before. Kairos, the timeliness of her argument, allows the song to be more powerful to a larger number of people.