Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
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Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
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There won't be any changes until we have another depression like in the 1930s, which we have not approached yet in the present recession.
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And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
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This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.
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