Watch Those Poetic Beatniks Provoke The 60s Generation

This seems to be a documentary in the civil rights movement and a good video. Not much about Beatniks here though.

Why didn't I know that Rock n Roll was started by black people

Some of the people interviewed in this film feel they were duped into believe Communism was evil. No, they were duped at an older age into believing Communism was NOT evil.

Where did the beatniks dissappear to?

Lana Del Rey mentioned beat poetry and im so glad to have discovered so inspirational and loving acts from the young black and white americans❤ thanks for the info content creator!

Capitalism and Communism are different sides of the same coin

History will always repeat itself, because there are only so many ways......

While the “America is always right” mantra was a total distortion, the evils of communism were dead on. Ask people who grew up under Soviet or Chinese communism and they will quickly tell of their experiences and those of their families. Communism is rooted in evil.

Anything you ban, the teen will want to discover. Curious minds learn. I would have loved being a Beatnik, but would have spent a lot of time in prison😆✊️🫶

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Lots of similarities between the Beat Generation and Millennials. Makes sense as the Beat Generation are the parents and family members of millennials.

Weird that they connected Rock N Roll with communism. Rock was totally suppressed in communist countries. Rock represented freedom.

Dear Mr Hoffman, as a fellow Hofstra man, I love your videos. I was born 2 years after you graduated.

If the communists had taken over America, today we’d have shortages on store shelves, a lack of incentives to work, and government operating in secret. Imagine that.

I used to get togather with friends and we'd get stoned and freestyle rap. I guess we were kind of the new generation of beatniks.

There is none so inferior as he that wants to be equal

The roaring 20s sith its swingin was not very different i dont think? 🤔

I believe the parents who grew up in the great depression sheltered their children and tried to instill work ethic out of fear of the great depression, but ended up liting a fuse that still burns to this day

Look at these guys, once upon a time they were the coolest of cats, now they're squaresville daddio.

then later came the hippies.

Is it just me or do these things of "indisputable and exagerrated truth" as well as good and evil of the 1950s is very similar to the forced propaganda in public schools and MSM today?

The same people so worked up about thought control are now doing it to children 10 fold worse. At least anti rock n roll fuddy duddies weren't demanding universal weiner removal and puberty blockers.

some of this white guys that explain are so racist saying that Elvis was a God send to. bring some white music so strange to hear this plus all this things about the Russians wow people are really programable

See a lot of similarities between rabid McCarthyism, and rabid Covid and mask enforcement...

Oh man, nothing ever changes

The important thing to remember is that Communism was, is, and shall forever remain evil.

The world that is shown during the civil rights portion of this video is exactly what political and ideological extremists mean when they say they “want their country back”.

A world where grown men can speak to and treat other grown men as if they are children.

That world is long gone and if we’re smart, we’ll make sure we continue to move away from it.

We certainly aren’t far removed from it by any means, much more progress is necessary. Just a reminder that many people are still alive today who lived through it.

We will continue to have these same issues of division as long as any group is treated (in practice, not theory) as less than another group.

Here’s to hoping we learn to get it together sooner rather than later.

Barely a single acknowledgement of how vile your country's propaganda machine was and is, and the treatment of fellow human beings.
Ohhh north Korea, they...
Ohhh Russia, they...
Ohhh China, they...
Ohhh bla bla bla...
All in the name of liberty and freedom.

You're not liberated, you're not free.

Ahhhhh The ignorance of youth; ignorance is bliss.. In Retrospect, a Failed Experiment of Culture Change…The idea that you can create an ideology out of a drug induced “what if” party..

This is when the world started to skew downward… it seemed to have been with these pre-hippies, that the answer to fixing a few problems was to throw the baby along with the whole plumbing system out with the bathwater..

if you’re wondering why we’re in the positions we are today politically and socially with Liberalism, Leftism, Feminism, Single-Motherhood, High Crime, Transgender pronouns, alarming rates of Homosexuality, Wokeism, Caucasian self-hatred, Forced Diversity & Multiculturalism being shoved down everybody’s throats, etc.. this was the beginning of that.. and is a testament that you can take things too far in either direction…

What's to like about the Beats? They were bums. No responsibilities to family, friends, or society. Unable to support themselves. They'd had sex with anyone for a couch to sleep on or for drugs. CIA-funded degenerates. And those poor kids in the 50s with their nice homes and comfortable living. They said they were oppressed by the conformity of the 50s. No, they were spoiled and lazy. They were the first generation who could afford to sit around and cause trouble because their parents worked so hard to give them that life.

"Little bird with your beak pressed up against the window...I have no food for you today, only death". Happy Days Episode

They called anything that elevated Black culture or equal rights as "Communist"

What "radicalized" me was being eligible for the draft during war time, and reading everything I could get my hands on, while in high school, by moral philosopher Mark Twain, based on being blown away by "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

Communism really is bad because it gives the buji ownership over the workers who give the buji their platform. Community not communism. Communism really is actually like what the girl said, all these evils are correct. Fact check true. Narrator has been fact checked false

Beatnick we're alright. I like them. Hippies not so much, hippies were different, they had more bad than good

What crazy was actually communism did have a role in how rock and roll was shaped after the beatnick movement. Yuri Bezmenov spoke on such.

So relevant. Great piece.

i met william burroughs in nyc in the 80s.

Bunch of idiots wasting oxygen, nothing is left after them.

Elvis didn’t do anything but steal from the people the parents were scared of lmao

As they reference Little Richard and Chuck berry... is why Elvis was brought onto the scene. WASP parents were worried that their nice WASP kids were going to groove their bodies to the "black" music and YIKES...procreate. Hence, Elvis...even with all his hip jerking...was still an attempt to mainstream and tame black music and make it more acceptable to middle class parents.

What a bunch of pretentious twats😆

What's the name of the series-documentary?

How times have changed. Now it's the liberals who are banning ANY speech with which they don't agree!

I was a younger laddie, girl, I do..remembered.those time's..beat nixed, wrotes poetry, singer's, sangs songs, hanged out clubs house, cafes, places, penna, states, Baltimore, Maryland southern Maryland, New Jersey states, commentwealth, New York, states, city green with villages, loding dodg..🚢 🚢 🚢..ships..goes out and comes n...

Rock&Roll isn't white, it's more black than white. First there was Blues, R&B, and with a little bit of this and that it became R&Roll. Sister Rosetta Tharpe was very important, and later on you got Jackie Brenston, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, etc... The whites loved it and caught on quickly, like Elvis, Jerry lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Link Wray, etc...
But it all began with the blacks.