WHO WERE THE BEAT GENERATION?

This is a must-see docu on the beat generation, the precursor of the anti-war peace-and-love movement of the sixties.

Watch it.  

You'll see how the system commodified what it feared: the power of youth to change the world.

In Manila, the beatniks didn't exert any influence on Filipino culture, because deep, hard U.S. culture never reached us.  The civil rights movement, MLK, Malcolm X did not break through the mainstream media filters.  Elvis did.  The Beatles. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iwxf3Crrcw

                                  FROM   THIS:

                                      IN  GREENWICH VILLAGE                                  

                                       TO  THIS:

   

Not visible in screenshot is the first line:

I'M   BORED.

I   THINK   I'LL... 

           The Beat Generation gave birth to the Counterculture.

            Really interesting how central music (jazz and folk) was to the Beat Generation, just as it was to the hippie movement (rock), because the hippies were the children of the beat generation.  

       The BG was more intellectual, more into poetry and literature.  Though 1960's youth rebellion were: 

                      (1)  Rejection of materialism

                      (2)  Rejection of conformity

And the intellectual vein of the beat generation morphed into the anti-war movement that ended the Vietnam war.