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Sticks, please. There are colonies of hippies springing up in most american cities. Its all related. The psychedelics and the war, the protesting. Im planning on having a good time as long as i can. Smoke pot with your kids and then youll understand why the kids are happier. Its a giant lovein. People should be uninhibited in their sexual expression. You cannot ignore it, a change in morality. Theyre fascist. They dont like hippies and they dont like the things we do. We do have to maintain law, order, and decency on the streets. What were thinking about is a peaceful planet. Were not thinking...

>> i will never be young again or any younger than i am today. i will never be faster or more flexible. i will never win competitions against 22-year-old wrestlers in my weight class. i will never be a black belt. none of those things will happen, but none of that matters anymore. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ >> san francisco is changing. we all know it. you can't stop it. >> were you born here? >> yeah, both generations of my...

Materialism and also the feeling that the culture itself didn't honor the human spirit and didn't honor creativity. >> in the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called the beat generation. a novel titled "on the road" became a bestseller. >> when kerouac's book comes out, it became a revolution. it defined a new generation of what being beat means. and it defined it as a spiritual revolution. that if we're living in an age of conformity, if everybody's trying to work for the corporation, that you're losing a sense of self. >> i was traveling west one time at th...

Mary Norbert Korte, legendary poet, teacher, environmental and political activist left her body this past Monday. She was at her home in the forest in Irmulco, where she had lived for 50 years. She was not in pain, her organs were simply failing after 88 adventurous revolutions around the sun.

Tales of Beatnik Bebop glory from the legendary novelist/poet Jack Kerouac; Vein one-ups Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Ivo Perelman is a damn genius; Anders Koppel creates a double-disc doozy from the photos of Jacob Riis; Marta Sanchez may have made the Album of the Year!