Tuesday, April 12, 2011
"…see the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers,
Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand
that they consume production and therefore have to work for
the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want
anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars,…and general junk
you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all
of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume,
work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack
revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans
wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to
pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young
girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who
go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for
no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected
acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to
all living creatures. "
Jack Kerouac
Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand
that they consume production and therefore have to work for
the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want
anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars,…and general junk
you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all
of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume,
work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack
revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans
wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to
pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young
girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who
go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for
no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected
acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to
all living creatures. "
Jack Kerouac
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