what do you think of the beatnik subculture that came before the hippies?
>>18588534Even faggier, but at least they didn't get their hands on LSD yet which turned them totally insane.
>>18588550jack Kerouac was an ultra chud though, he hated the hippies and jews and went on william f bucklys show were he said he was a proud catholic
>>18588554Jack found out that he wasn't gay after him and Ginsberg tried having sex.Even after the experience, he remained very insecure in his sexuality.
>>18588550They were too busy smoking weed in Greenwich Village to partake in LSD
>>18588554>buckley>chudBuckley was a classic cuckservative, Pat Buchanan was the champion of the chuds
>>18588554https://youtu.be/l4ZDIF0RNro?si=SFggsS3ZuxVqQluYKerouac was working class French Canadian and reverted to his roots after becoming a bitter old drunk. Even with all his frantic hipsterism, his writing is filled with nostalgia for an idyllic lost Americana. He really hated the hippies just as any original artist loathes their glassy eyed followers.
>>18588708https://youtu.be/sCWbVl4IKpU?si=xR7lJJJT4fyivf8yIn contrast to the drunken Kerouac interview, it’s fun to see Buckley (Harvard) and Ginsburg (Columbia) in full Ivy League snob mode.
>>18588674Kerouac had serious mommy issues, living with her on and off throughout his adult life and dying drunk in their house in Florida. He had some normal relationships with women but still had massive insecurity thanks to his control freak mom.
>>18588990iow exactly like Bob Dylan who also found hippies disgusting and loved that whole Americana bullshit
>>18589002Correction: Buckley went to Yale. Even Kerouac started as an Ivy Leaguer, recruited to play football at Columbia back when they were a major power. William Burroughs went to Harvard and Gregory Corso took some classes there. Whatever you think of the Beats, their founding fathers weren’t uneducated lunkheads. Ginsberg could recite reams of classical verse from memory.
>>18588534At least the hippies had some of that nature worship to them. The beats were just cynical druggie degens that hated themselves even more than they hated society and thought having gay sex was the peak of transgression.
