The Beats & The Tea Party.
October 28, 2010 1:28 AM
In this very insightful essay by Lee Siegel, author and editor for the New York Observer, we discover how close Alan Ginsburg is to Rick Santelli:
American freedom is a many-splendored thing, and multifaceted too. "We drove in his old Chevy," Kerouac says, with portentous joy, in "On the Road." In the course of the exuberant tirade that gave birth to the Tea Party, Rick Santelli of CNBC referred to the '54 Chevy, "maybe the last great car to come out of Detroit." That might be as close to a convergence of different ideas of American freedom as our tortured polity will ever come.
Or this one:
True, the Tea Partiers' unnerving habit of bringing guns to town-hall meetings would have repelled the Beats. But William S. Burroughs fetishized guns, accidentally killing his wife while trying to shoot a glass off her head. Violence, implicit or explicit, comes with the "beaten" state of mind. So does theatricality, since playing roles -- and manipulating symbols -- is often the first resort of people who do not feel acknowledged for being who they really are.
Read on for the fascinating symbiosis where the far left Beatniks of the 1950's meet the crazies of the far right Tea Party movement!
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