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•Posted by2 years ago

Please, Help me understand the "Beat Generation"

I recently read "On the Road" and got mixed feelings from it: on the one hand, the strength and spirituality of the journey, the rejection of conventions and the continuous search for an elusive truth impressed me a lot, thanks also to my romantic nature, on the other hand, however, I had the impression that Kerouac and his companions were a group of runaways, who are not aware of what they are doing, of what is happening around them and who are not really able to observe and analyze what is happening because of both drugs and alcohol and a confused personality, unable to concentrate and remain serious, calm to live what is happening. I also noticed a strong egocentrism of the characters (especially Dean) as if they were not able to do anything else but take care of their inner journey.

So what I would like to ask is this: were the Beatniks really a group of young people who lived in chaos chasing something they didn't know what it was or were they people who were also able to understand and analyze in a sober and rational way, maybe even brilliant, the world around them? This impression of mine is only due to the reading of "On the road" but other books of these authors are different?

(sorry if my english isn't perfect :) )

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•Posted by2 months ago

My beat generation grandmother's very radical voting record

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California

1956: Voted for Adlai Stevenson, the last normal vote of her life.

1960:Rutherford Decker of the Prohibition Party "I thought his name was just outstandingly funny, a man like that could destroy the free world" (She said this grinning)

Virginia

1964: Wrote in John Kennedy "At the time I was convinced he had been killed by Johnson, although now I think it was the CIA."

Massachusetts

1968: Wrote in Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers "The Panthers were just the hippest thing in the world, everyone who was worth talking to loved them."

1972: Linda Jenness of the Socialist Workers Party "It was always a real treat to get to vote for a woman for president, even if she was a Trotskyist. Mcgovern seemed like a phony anyway."

1976: Eugene McCarthy third party run "I can't believe Carter is still alive, I truly despise him."

1980: Wrote in Deirdre Griswold of Workers World "I actually met her a few times, she wasn't completely boring and her campaign posters were actually pretty neat."

1984: Dennis Serrette of the New Alliance Party "It turns out the whole thing was a cult but I actually liked those New Alliance kids, very passionate."

1988: Lenora Fulani New Alliance Party

1992: Lyndon LaRouche "In my defense I genuinely thought the whole LaRouche thing was satire."

1996: Wrote in Ralph Nader of the Green Party "I saw him speak a few times, honestly kind of a bore but he was handsome and he had some very good ideas"

2000: Ralph Nader "I had just retired and so I finally had time to volunteer, I was the oldest person in the room phone banking for him."

2004: David Cobb of the Green Party "At that point, I was really down with a lot of the Green activists and they all liked him."

Illinois

2008: Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party "Honestly one of my favorite candidates of all time, she was just fantastic on almost everything."

2012: Jill Stein of the Green Party "People forget this now but the Green New Deal used to be a radical thing, she made it her slogan!"

2016: Jill Stein of the Green Party "I took you to see her speak remember? She answered your question!"

2020: Gloria La Riva Party for Socialism and Liberation "I had never liked Howie Hawkins and after that primary where he cheated [Dario] Hunter I figured I'd just vote PSL."

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•Posted by3 months ago

Beat Generation Retro (non gauntlet) for my 3000th star! Don’t understand the hate tbh

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•Posted byu/[deleted]3 years ago

The Beat Generation passes into history. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1970, died yesterday at 101 years old. Photo Sam Falk

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•Posted by7 months ago

The Problematic: Unlikelihood that several members of the Beat Generation, a single friend group based around Columbia students, succeeded in their own right

It's improbable that, of all the Ivy League students at the time, Kerouac and Ginsburg, as well as their friend Burroughs, would all independently achieve literary success. Ginsburg was the first with Howl in 1956, so if one were to consider their success one by proximity/connections, Kerouac and Burroughs would be the undeserving. However, they each published other works which did not merit the same critical acclaim as On The Road and The Naked Lunch.

To what would you attribute this phenomenon? Is it a zeitgeist which their shared interactions helped to perceive and communicate? Were their works a psyop to promote decadence? Do geniuses gravitate to each other, as in Nietzsche's bond with Wagner and near affair with Lou Salomé? Or did publishers merely capitalize on promoting successive, similarly controversial works?

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