The Philosophy of the Beat Generation.
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- The Beat Generation is a literary movement which came to prominence in the 1950s with books such as 'Naked Lunch' by William Burroughs and 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac becoming classics of American literature. The movement was more about the life and characters which each of the writers experienced rather than the perfectly placed syntax. In this video I lay out the history of each of the main three of the movement ultimately culminating with the general philosophy of the beat's and how it can be taken on board for each persons life; whether it be in a big aspect or a simple bit of zest to your life.
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You got a subscription from me for that. It was Jack Kerouac who inspired me to write. And writing inspires me to live. And living inspires me to write.
Thank you, I have a similar feeling towards Kerouac. 😀
i thought kerouac inspires you to write
@@marco-cx8go🤡
So wait Kerouac inspires you to live ?
Please stop writing. We don't need it.
My grandma used to live right around the corner from where Jack Kerouac wrote most of his poetry in College Park Florida....
That’s so cool
It snowed in Minnesota last night.
I read “On the road” in the service.
It changed my life
I read it while I was deployed in Iraq.
How did it change your life? Just curious. I read it. Wasn’t impressed. Ramble on and on about individuals with no direction or ambition. To be polite: bums.
I found the Beats & Existential’s so influential… most don’t even acknowledge them now. Nothing like a bit of free form expressionism! There were nerds too! Incredibly intelligent, literate & artistic.
@Keskesay - A concise and fascinating video on an important subject. I'm inspired to find out more about the people concerned. Massive thanks for taking the time to make and post this!
Thank you
I wrote a song inspired by Jack Kerouac - On The Road. Here are the lyrics.
I was raised by a railway track on the wrong side of town.
Father was a working man. Face a hard worn frown.
Freight yards were my playing fields.
Dodging locos wheels.
Trains passed by I read the signs.
Places seemed unreal.
At 15 years I took my chance - hid on a train going any place.
When it stopped and I got off. No one knew my face.
Open skies are in my eyes. I'll never settle down.
I may arrive but I'll soon be gone.
Heading out of town.
So don't you try and hold my coat.
I won't be slowed, I'm on the road.
When I die by a dusty track I'll be on my own.
I'm alone inside my head that's the way it's gonna be.
Movin' on from place to place is the nearest to be free.
Horizons call and beckon me,
Whatever's there, I've gotta see .
I'm on the road with the lightest load.
I'm on the road. I'm on the road.
Burroughs is up there with Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Proust, stein, even Shakespeare
Very nice video, thanks for it! I think safety and convenience are great obstacles to live a fulfilling life. It‘s not how long you live, but how rich your experience of the world is. There are some aspects we can learn from these guys.
Back when generations HAD a philosophy.
Those beat writers are my literary idols.
Great vid, dude. I always thought John Clellon Holmes was under-rated as a Beat writer; his book 'Go!' is worth a read if you're interested in this genre.
Thanks a lot, just added to my list will check it out.
Holmes is called Tom Saybrook in On the Road...I don't think Kerouac was a fan. Not that it means anything, just information.
I recall hearing about jack kerouac. Not certain where exactly.
And remembered that episode of quantum leap. I jokingly think that Dr. Sam Beckitt should perhaps have offered advice to Mr. Kerouac to ease up on the drink.
all the people complaining ginsberg support nambla shows that he is still a revolutionary.
We need some of this now. Great lecture man. You deserve a sub.
Very underrated channel, keep it up .
Thank you a lot
In this age, life isn’t enjoyable without money
Yup
true. In the old times you can do so much more with little money than today.
How so?
please speak more clear or add subtitles. was hard to hear
Great Video. Honestly I don't quite get the comments. I understood everything. Well made !
Thanks so much really appreciate it
i really wanna be able to speak like this
thank you for this video! it was so good
Thanks so much appreciate it
crazy good video dude great work
Thanks a lot
I get it, how you want to merge the two roads of Beat and Hippie, sure at the base may seem to fit together like a two squares. Yet, I implore you to take a closer look at was really going on! Beat generation wanted you to drop everything and go live your life, experience the vastness of the world, the cultures, the people, the music (yes drugs and sex if you wanted too, but it wasn't the prime). The hippie generation in contrast wanted you to dropout, do drugs and have sex...nothing at all about experiencing life and everything it entails! Sure both were counter coulure (which tends not to last long in societies). But where in the hippie generation is the life? The Beat generation had it in Spades. The hippies were just really lazy water downed versions of Beatniks. And don't even get me started on todays "counter culture" generation. Lazier than hippies, entitled, and really just trying to copy off the homework of those who failed before them. Which in part is why we haven't seen or heard from people who can be placed in the same breaths as Jack, William, or Ginsberg.
I've lived the life man, the life most only read about. I've travelled the world. Picked grapes in France, olives in Greece. Alaska fisherman, dug for gold in South America, scuba dove in Africa. Worked on freight trains and cargo planes. Served in the French Foreign Legion. Loved so many yet few so truly! I've cried, nearly died, and told my best friends desperate lies. Been to jail. All to live life! I've not touched a drug, drank a lot in youth, tapered off as I grew older (so I could still live life beyond what Jack did). I've been on the streets in the west and east coasts, danced with the rich, and still hate the politicians. I've studied, am well read, and have an education born from those experiences. And I'm not done yet! I encourage others to do the same, but caution them. This life is a fantasy for most, rooted in a lack of any real responsibility. Sure, happy today, miserable tomorrow. Nothing but memories to hold you down. Either you die to Young to learn the truth of it all or you lose the only truths that loved you.
The beats were on the right track, the hippies ruined it for everyone!
The Beatniks ruined things when they started renting themselves out as entertainment at parties for NYC's elite! And there is no counterculture today, its all about fashion trends. Those in the 60's counterculture were constantly on the move, they were far from lazy nor were they a watered down version of the Beats, they were more original and took full advantage of the privilege of youth!
gotta watch out man. youth fades fast. youll never find todays thinkers online, least not in any meaningful way. back then the place to be was to be square, today the internet is for squares. Just as a poser in the 60s hung photos of the beatles and had a sneaky toke behind the bike shed, the posers of today post online about identity and going to trendy places.
Youll find todays answer to the beats doing what the beats did: checked out with the hustle of life.
The laughing heart (Tom Waits reads a Charles Bukowski poem)
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The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski
your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
-- by Charles Bukowski
Was Vonnegut a Beat writing pseudo science fiction? He's from that time. He settled down with a family after the war and wrote novels after magazines publishing short stories went belly-up from TV.
I'm a huge fan of Vonnegut and have taught the Beats at the university level. I would consider him a significant satellite of that planetary system.
@PoPpUnKdOtCoM Don't forget that Vonnegut wrote "Slaughter House 5" which was based on his experiences as a POW in Germany.
I am really struggling to get through “Go” by John Clellon Holmes . I fail to see any redeeming quality or special insight into life that can be gleaned from the anecdotes of mindless hedonism that these bohemian literature types write. I may try to read Kerouac one day but since I have not enjoyed “Go” or “The Sun also rises” I doubt I will get anything out of it.
The Old Man from _Pawn Stars_ mentioned the _"Beatniks",_ when Chumlee was explaining hipsters to him...xD
You should do a repost of this video where you balance out the sounds.
The levels are all over the place.
A one point you have to crank up the volume to what's been said.
The next you're being blown away.
This is fantastic man! What part of England are you from? North east right? I love your narration.
Thanks a lot, also I’m from Newcastle
The next decade DEFINED by Kerouac
I lived that time. Ivy Rose Nightscales,
That was cool. Well done
Thank you, appreciate it.
What is this? Thank you for your concise informative.
Andy Warhol is mentioned in this as a beat influence? Not so - he's strictly sixties.
At the end when he said "ah" I then said "ah" haha. Good show!
Appreciate it
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Well I think that generation read lots of things the writers did too Jim Morrison was reading Huxley when they came up with The Doors (as in to perception). There was TV but not hundreds of channels so people listened to records and read books and got together more often than now. There was a war going on and their was a generation gap with their parents and WW2 and the great depression the whole context of the eras circumstances needs be considered and "philosophers" require symposium type environments to have their discussions and share ideas.
Nice video! If I could give one piece of constructive criticism: please slow down your speech. I’m a native English speaker but can barely understand you at time because words are compressed into such short spans of time. It might feel like when you slow down it’s too slow, but I promise it comes out sounding just right in post :) Wishing you the best!
Jack up the audio of the spoken parts.
Great aesthetics. Really got good at the end circa 8:33 when you got around the philosophy bit, but then the philosophy section ended so quickly; it was just over a minute.
Got you just figure out audio at the moment
Thanks for the feedback, understand what you mean think I just felt what I was saying felt right to end there but will try in next videos to extend the philosophy part.
@@keskesay7466 if you need help on audio give me a message I do this for a living. great stuff!
Gregory Corso rose up from hell and became a famous beat poet.
Beatnik rather than later hippy era for me
Great intro is it the record they dance to in Reefer Madness? My friends dad declined a massage from Ginsberg after an "avenue of change". So which beat lived the longest?
Sorry cant remember the name of the song and pretty cool story. Pretty sure Burroughs or Ginsberg lived the longest.
Great video!
Although I have to say, I never understood people who categorize Dylan as a postmodern figure or even as an intellectual part of the hippie culture. There’s no doubt he surrounded himself with such people. But what I really grasp from his writings are mostly traditional/modernist ideas. Closer to T.S. Eliot than Ginsberg and the Beat generation types. Am I crazy for saying that?!
No wouldn’t say that’s crazy at all and thank you for the comment very much appreciated.
He was absolutely a beatnick it was a writers movement that's why he has a Nobel prize in literature now he was not just a musician he was part of the poetry subculture.
No, but even if you are - So what?
thank u soooooooooo much
Revised to not be so harsh ...
RUclips has a video of Kerouac reading, backed by ubiquitous composer / broadcaster / musician etc. Steve Allen--strongly recommend.
Granted, I had a couple decades as a broadcaster so my standards are above average / I'm "pickier" (read: obnoxious) to a greater extent; and, for that matter, e.g., American average on-air people nowadays are not "broadcast quality." AND I might be wrong about the audio on this if things got better after when I bailed circa 3 minutes in; this was difficult to listen to.
You might consider getting a good sound person and voiceover professional and do the audio again.
A good effort at a mini documentary. I noticed in your newer videos that you invested in room treatment and perhaps a better mic to improve audio. To go a step further you should edit out mouth noises and breaths from your recordings. You're nearly there. Nice job keep at it.
Thanks appreciate the feedback
Nobody is really ahead of their time
Great video, what's the name of the song you use in the intro?
Thank you, I actually don’t know I have lost the link I'll let you know if I find it
@@keskesay7466 Cheers appreciate it
Ugh my local library only carries jack kerouac’s books ☹️
How does he know this?
Dude, you need to turn up your internal mic when you record your voice . To low cant here well
why did you add -nik at the end? i've wrote in wikipedia that you took it from sput-nik (thirst russian spaceship). why?
The way I've heard it described is that the word "Beatnik" was originally an insult thought up by some literary critic at the time, basically a simple way to refer to them as communists, because they tended to hold socialist, progressive, and communist beliefs. The Beatniks took the word and made it their own, much like the Punks and Hippies would do later on.
Ya commie satanic pedos and queers man 👍
amazing
Thank you
Thank you
Allen Ginsberg (direct quote): "I'm a member of NAMBLA because I love boys too -- everybody does, who has a little humanity."
NAMBLA is a pedophile activist group, and with the word "boys" Ginsberg means actual boys, as in children, not adult males.
I'm sure that the chomos in NAMBLA will always be grateful for the work Ginsberg did on their behalf.
However, chomos remain the lowest of the low, not matter how much well-known poetry they produce.
In my youth I got a copy of Howl from Ginsberg and he tried to pick me up. I ran like hell.
In current times, Ginsberg would be in prison.
So basically things never change only the number of the year
This is daunting and inspiring, not sad
subscribed. i've got some reading to do
EPIC. Thanks.
Glad you liked it!
I can’t understand a word you say bro..too bad, cause it seemed very interesting
Aw that’s a shame more recent videos have audio fixed
@@keskesay7466 you speak so unsympathetically.
@@keskesay7466 cool! Keep up the good job
It shows me that you really don't know what the beatniks are all about if you're always Tangled up in the sexuality part of of viewing it
Nice one
Glad you like it!
I miss Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.
What is "capitilism"?
Where did you get the video for this?
Subscribed!
From what I can remember it was just from videos which show up when you type Beat Generation in on RUclips, hope that helps. Thanks for the sub.
You need to be more popular bruh
Thanks a lot appreciate that
Love burrows but not really a big fan of carowak
And today we see the results all over the West....wonderful?
Its a space
ENUNCIATE ya Limey Marblemouth!!
What 🧐
VOLUME LEveliING!!!!
Difficult now repeat the beat generation, seventy years are gone, and was no always beatific the ambiance. you can try with meditation, the East of philosophy is a possibility.
Why don't you speak a little faster?
Beats=Dylan=60's counterculture
Where’s that accent from Tennessee?
Robert Frank
Please speak louder!
Warhol Brillo boxes 1964
Wane
Bewk
"The Philosophy of the Beat Generation: scrounge money off your rich parents for your entire life, and spend it on drugs."
Audio volumes out of whack. Unwatchable.
Does anyone else think Charles Manson could have been among these other legends if he had stayed out of jail, gotten a bit of an education and not been blamed for murders that had nothing to do with him and sensationalized by the media? He had a lot of these same views and an amazing storytelling ability.
No
So Manson had nothing to do with the murders, eh? Except he did, he orchestrated them! By your rationale, Nixon had nothing to do with the Vietnam war and Watergate! Manson was a goon, a punk, a scumbag and his storytelling abilities weren't amazing, they were dull, ordinary, pedestrian!
No
Bunch of beatnicks
Indeed
I have to say...the narrator should properly "ENUNCIATE." His mumbling style is near incomprehensible leaving the listener exhausted.
I remember the Beat Generation of the 1950’s and the beatniks who read Kerouac and listened to the cool jazz of Chet Baker. I was just a little kid in the 1950’s but I learned to stay away from teenage beatniks. Beatniks were mean sadistic violent teenagers who liked to hide and beat me up and knock me and other little kids down on the sidewalk. They were a bunch of cowards when 5 teenage beatniks had to beat up a little 8 year old boy to get their kicks. And these beatniks all worshipped Kerouac books so whenever I saw one of his books in a library or bookstore I tore out the pages and defaced his books as much as I could when no one was looking. It made me feel good to do this to the books of the beatniks god, Kerouac. The beatniks also liked the cool jazz of Chet Baker snd whenever I saw one of his records in a record store I would slash the record with a knife when no one was watching. The beatniks hated me and made fun of me because I liked early jazz as a kid and bought 78’s by Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke in a Salvation Army store. The teenage beatniks would wait for me walking home with my jazz 78’s and grab them from me and break them on the sidewalk then beat me up. I have hated Jack Kerouac and his mean sadistic violent followers my whole life.
Sounds pretty nasty and I understand your feelings. However, I would say that how those people treated you should not stop you enjoying the writing of writers in the Beat Generation and I’m sorry that is why.
@@keskesay7466 I associate those books as a 8 year old boy with having being beaten, knocked to the ground and kicked senseless by a gang of teenage beatniks who worshipped those books as their bible. Every time I see one of those books and deface it or burn it I feel it is my way at striking back at them. My ultimate dream would have been to meet Kerouac in a dark alley one night when I was an adult. You might ask what my parents did about this. My father confronted one of the teenage beatniks and the beatnik pulled a switch blade on him and taunted him with come on daddy O. I begged my father to buy a gun then confront him again and when the punk pulled his switch blade again I told my father to blow his brains out but my father would not do it. Go to the police? What a joke the police were worthless when I was a kid. My neighborhood was a jungle back in the late 1950’s.
@@jazzguy1927 Sounds terrible, I'm sorry this happened to you.
@@keskesay7466 sounds like antifa 😂😂😂😂
@@jazzguy1927 I do not believe you. You are saying that with a far right slant.
Wow, good job obscuring the image with all that stupid text...
Rule #1) Only wear all black. #2) Wear berets,play bongo drums. #3) Kool kats wear goatees and shades. #4) Chick girlfriends got that Gothic thing going.
Christ the ONLY.WAY TO HEAVEN.
Sorry, the audio is horrible and barely intelligible. Had to exit before 2 minutes had passed.
There are automated subtitles.
everyone is trying to figure out why humans can not be content with capitalism
The volume is horrible
old video now, new videos have better quality hope you still enjoyed the video.
This narrator MUMBLES! I can’t understand anything he says.
Your audio sucks bro. Good information though...
Thanks for the feedback
What a waste of time.
Please describe your words in a slower way and in a more accurate way, you are slurring your words and I cannot watch it happen so I will now stop watching this video.
Ok pedant
@@keskesay7466 Wow. She ain't a pedant you idiot. She just wants to hear what y'r spouting. There was no philosophy to the BG, btw
i think hes just british brother