Re: What the Dylan/Beatles/Sixties Generation stood for
- From: Melia <pasternak32@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:41:13 -0700 (PDT)
Just little links, dots on a long line we each are.
Thus we are connected. See it or not, like it or not.
On Sep 20, 3:15 am, Jumbo <ch...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 20, 3:32 am, Jack Kerouac wrote:
I've been thinking about the 50s for a long time. I realized the
importance of that era while it was happening. Although I can't
pinpoint the exact moment, I knew early on that my friends,
classmates, and I were part of a unique group. I have never wavered
from that certainty. It is not a belief centered in elitism, or
feelings of superiority, but rather one centered in the idea that the
so-called Beat Generation has a purpose. This generational calling
is
difficult to define in its entirety, but it contains three core
beliefs:
1. The pursuit of money is at the root of most problems.
2. The work ethic has been co-opted and warped to make slaves.
3. What we do to the Earth affects us all.
Before the 50s ended, this calling was part of a group unity and
effort. After the 50s passed, it became an popular urge based upon
commercial accomplishments...
Etc.
You could do the same with any decade, with a view minor changes of
emphasis (green issues and dance music in the 80s were no less
revolutionary than anything in the 60s).
What makes the 60s distinct is the commercial demographic of kids with
much greater spending power. The so-called 60s ideals were all
inherited from preceding decades (esp. the 50s, as a result of fallout
from WW2). In any case, the ideals of those earlier decades themselves
were inspired by the fin de siecle recovery of spiritual values, as a
reaction to the rampant materialism following the industrial
revolution and mass urbanisation in the Christian west.
.
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