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"For decades since the birth of the teenager in the "50s" and countercultural/subculture movements that followed it (beat generation, hippies, punks, goths... etc.) there was always this rejection of the status quo, and the establishment, being yourself and being anti-corporatism was what young peopl"
"we dont even have, like, beat gen writers like kerouac or fariña or something to at least give a sign of the times."
"Funniest thing iv read in ages"
"I've been reading a lot of the beat era literature. I love Ginsberg and Burroughs but I can't seem to really get into Kerouac. I've practiced Buddhism for years and I find his understanding alright if not misleading."
"Really got into On the Road in college and enjoyed Dharma Bums/Big Sur. Seems like a lot of people are too cool for him nowadays."
"I find it interesting when reading the works of the beat generation and the new left how much everything is about individual liberation. Escaping the supposed confines of middle class banality. All that fuck the straight world stuff. But when i look at my generation (myself included) what we really "
"The Beat poets drew inspiration not just from Whitman's poetry, but from his vagrant lifestyle as well"