RE: MD "It"

From: Paul Turner (paulj.turner@ntlworld.com)
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 20:07:16 GMT

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    Hi David

    David said:
    "Phaedrus thought the reason this (hippie) movement had been so hard to
    understand is that "understanding" itself, static intellect, was its
    enemy.
    The culture-bearing book of the period, ON THE ROAD, by Jack Kerouac,
    was a
    running lecture against intellect."

    "...his analysis showed that this "dynamic" sixties revolution made a
    disastrous mistake that destroyed it before it really got started. The
    Hippie rejection of social and intellectual patterns left just two
    directions to go: toward biological quality and toward Dynamic Quality.
    The
    revolutionaries of the 60's thought that since both are anti-social, and
    since both are anti-intellectual, why then they both must be the same.
    That
    was the mistake. American writing on Zen during this period showed this
    confusion."

    My point? Be careful, that's all.

    Paul:
    A perceptive point, and one that is evident in a lot of Kerouac's work.
    His inability to distinguish between Dynamic Quality and biological
    quality may have ultimately caused his alcoholism induced death. Still,
    I think the Dynamic Quality of some his writing is unmistakeable!

    Thanks

    Paul

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