Hi dmb,
Since Jack Kerouac wasn't a hippie, nor did he even considered himself to be a
beatnik, I don't see the relevance of this RMP quote. Are you opposed to this
particular poem? The 'Scripture of the Golden Eternity' is supposed to be one
of Kerouac's best poems; it is not stale old tea... I thought you'd appreciate
reading some good writing. In Anthony McWatt's excellent PhD dissertation, he
writes:
"... the substantial emphasis on Eastern mysticism also indicates why ZMM and
LILA were never written as analytic texts but, instead, follow the tradition of
North American literature that combines both philosophical and spiritual
discourses with accounts of physical and metaphorical journeys. Included within
this genre is the work by Thoreau, Twain, Henry James, Steinbeck, Hemingway and
Kerouac. It is towards the latter, as with the best literature, that Pirsig
aligns his writing as a form of literary koan whereby important truths beyond
analytical construction are elucidated – especially those concerned with the
logically indefinable but metaphorically intuitive Good."
There's much more to Jack Kerouac than 'On The Road'. And I do believe that,
like RMP, each new generation finds value in his writing.
Marsha
> On Jul 11, 2013, at 4:25 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> " ...the reason this movement has been so so hard to understand is that
> “understanding” itself, static intellect, was it’s enemy. The culture-bearing
> book of the period, On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, was a running lecture
> against intellect. ...Oriental religions such as Zen and Vedanta that
> promised release from the prison of intellect were taken up as gospel. ...
> Degeneracy was practiced for degeneracy’s sake. Anything was good that shook
> off paralyzing intellectual grip of the social-intellectual Establishment."
>
>
> The Hippies have been interpreted as frivolous spoiled children, and their
> period following their departure as “a return to values,” whatever that
> means. The Metaphysics of Quality, however, says that’s backward: The Hippie
> revolution was the moral movement. The present period is the collapse of
> values.
> The Hippie revolution of the sixties was a moral revolution against both
> society and intellectuality. It was a whole new social phenomenon no
> intellectual had predicted and no intellectuals were able to explain. It was
> a revolution by children of well-to-do, college-educated, “modern” people of
> the world who suddenly turned upon their parents and their schools and their
> societies with a hatred no one could have believed existed. This was not any
> new paradise the intellectuals of the twentieth society were trying to
> achieve by freedom from Victorian restraints. This was something else that
> had blown up in their faces.
> Pheudrus thought the reason this movement has been so so hard to understand
> is that “understanding” itself, static intellect, was it’s enemy. The
> culture-bearing book of the period, On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, was a
> running lecture against intellect. “.....All my New York friends were in the
> negative nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tirish
> bookish political or psychoanalytic reasons,” Kerouac wrote, “but Dean” (the
> hero of the book)” just raced in society eager for bread and love; he didn’t
> care one way or the other.”
> In the twenties it had been thought that society was the cause of man’s
> unhappiness and that the intellect would cure it, but in the sixties it was
> thought that both society and intellect together were the chouse of all the
> unhappiness and that transcendence of both society and intellect would cure
> it. Whatever the intellectuals of the twenties had fought to create, the
> flower children of the sixties fought to destroy. Contempt for rules, for
> material possessions, for war, for technology were standard repertoire. The
> “blowing of the mind" was important. Drugs that destroyed one’s ability to
> reason were almost a sacrament. Oriental religions such as Zen and Vedanta
> that promised release from the prison of intellect were taken up as gospel.
> The cultural values of blacks and Indians, to the extent that they were
> anti-intellectual, were mimicked. Anarchy became the most popular politics
> and squalor and poverty and chaos became the most popular life-styles.
> Degeneracy was practiced for degeneracy’s sake. Anything was good that shook
> off paralyzing intellectual grip of the social-intellectual Establishment.
>
>
>
>
>> On Jul 11, 2013, at 12:44 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Scripture of the Golden Eternity
>>
>> Jack Kerouac
>>
>>
>> 1
>>
>> Did I create that sky? Yes, for, if it was anything other than a conception
>> in my mind I wouldnt have said "Sky"-That is why I am the golden eternity.
>> There are not two of us here, reader and writer, but one, one golden
>> eternity, One-Which-It-Is, That-Which- Everything-Is.
>>
>> 2
>>
>> The awakened Buddha to show the way, the chosen Messiah to die in the
>> degradation of
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