CNNW The Sixties July 24, 2016
Were not thinking of anything else. Theyre trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. America in the early 60s, it was a real good time of prosperity, but it was also kind of a stagnant time in terms of spiritual growth. Things were kind of at a standstill. The baseline culture was materialism, and also the feeling that the culture itself didnt honor the human spirit and didnt honor creativity. The early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called b generation. A novel titled on the road became a bestseller. When kerouacs book came...