Host: The subject for tonight’s discussion: “is there a Beat Generation?” Jack Kerouac: The question is very silly, because we should be wondering tonight “is there a World?”. There is really no World – sometimes I’m walking on the ground and I can see right through the ground. There is no World – there is Beat Generation.

01. Alan Watts: In music - on doesn’t make the end of a composition, the point of a composition. If that was so the best conductors would be those who play it fastest. And there would be composers who wrote only finales. People would go to concert just to hear one crashing chord - cause that’s the end! We thought of life by analogy with the Journey, with a Pilgrimage, which had a serious purposes at the end, the thing was to get to that end. Success or whatever it is, or maybe Heaven, after your death… But we missed the point the whole way along - it was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or dance, while the music was being played.

01. Allen Ginsberg - (excerpts from) America: America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. I don't feel good don't bother me. When will you take off your clothes? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb. America when will you send your eggs to India? I'm sick of your insane demands. When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks? I don’t want to die young, I wanna die old and unhappy. You made me want to be a saint. There must be some other way to settle this argument. I'm trying to come to the point. I refuse to give up my obsession. America stop pushing I know what I'm doing. My mind is made up there's going to be trouble. America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry. The American flag is absolutely meaningless to me still just as it was in the thirties. I won't say the Lord's Prayer. I'm obsessed by Time Magazine. I read it every week. Time Magazine is always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me. It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again.

01. Ginsberg: I search for the language that is also yours - Trump: I know words, I have the best words - I’m very highly educated. Ginsberg: I lift my voice aloud, make Mantra of American language now, Trump: I know words, I have the best words - I have the best courses in the world. I Donald John Trump Ginsberg: I here declare Trump: … that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will… I will be the greatest president that God ever created, I tell you that … so help me God … so help me God Ginsberg: Let the States tremble, let the nation weep, let Congress legislate its own delight, let the President execute his own desire Trump: when it comes to great stakes - I have just raised the steaks! Trump’s steaks are the world greatest steaks and I mean that in every sense of the word I know words, I have the best words Ginsberg: this Act done by my own voice, published to my own senses, blissfully received by my own form Trump: Trump’s people are the most incredible Ginsberg: approved with pleasure by my sensations Trump: Best tasting and most flavourful beef you’ve ever had - it’s the best of the best. Ginsberg: manifestation of my very thought Trump: They love me! Do you believe it?! Ginsberg: accomplished in my own imagination Trump: The largest bank in the world is my tenant - I’m really rich. Ginsberg: all realms within my consciousness fulfilled Trump: I will build a Great Wall and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me Best in the economy, by far, best in leadership They love me, you believe it?

01. Neal Cassady: We’re actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world... We’re actually fourth dimensional beings Diane Di Prima: Marble figurines carved in a mantelpiece. Neal Cassady: We’re actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world... Diane Di Prima: Marble figurines carved in a mantelpiece. Neal Cassady: We’re actually Diane Di Prima: Marble figurines carved in a mantelpiece. Neal Cassady: in a third dimensional body Diane Di Prima: And the clay began to talk and became human - one part man one part woman.

01. Oh Man is the highest type of animal existing or known to have existed but differs from other animals Well when I think of man I think of them in a sexual manner Otherwise, I don't notice the difference, you know

The term Beat-nik was introduce just at the time when the Russian have sent up satellite Sputnik Beat, I was beat Beat, I was beat Beat, I was beat Beat, I was beat I was Sputnik I was tired exhausted, worn out… That’s what I meant… Beat, I was beat Beat, I was beat Beat, I was beat Beat, I was beat I was Sputnik

excerpts from a poem: Expressionist history of German Expressionism: The Blue Rider rode over The Bridge into the Bauhaus On more than one blue horse Franz Marc made his blue mark On the blue scene And Kirchner cantered through the dark circus On a different dark horse And Meidner painted the Apocalypse Feininger traced a Tragic Being And fingered skyscrapers Which fell across the Atlantic (And the Bauhaus in its final antic Fell on Chicago) Meanwhile back in Berlin Hitler was painting himself Into a corner And his ovens were heating As a Tin Drum began beating

01. excerpts from a novel - On the road: Then came spring, the great time of traveling, and everybody in the scattered gang was getting ready to take one trip or another. because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ”Awww!” TV commercial: Hello I’m Truman Bradley speaking for your local Chrysler dealer. Notice how your neighbours look with admiration as you drive out in your new Chrysler excerpts from a movie Magic Trip: - so, we decided to go travel across the country across the united states go to the world's fair, and come back across, just to experience the... the american landscape and heartscape Why was the idea of a road trip so appealing? TV commercial: Because we believe that 15 minutes here - can change 15 years of car buying habits... But let’s spend a saturday morning with the owners of this slick new power style Chrysler Magic Trip: we weren't old enough to be beatniks, … a little too old to be hippies. but everybody i knew had read On the road, and it opened up the doors to us just the same way drugs did. TV commercial: And that is especially true if you now drive one of two major competitive cars in Chrysler price class Magic Trip: a new way to look at america, and it stirred us up. just the same way drugs did. TV commercial: In fact - everyday more and more folks just like you are making the big switch to the exiting new 56 Chrysler Magic Trip: why was the idea of a road trip so appealing? TV commercial: The new power style Chrysler emphasises the forward look of power in motion Looks like its still moving Even when it stops! On the road: because the only people for me are the mad ones, the mad ones the mad ones TV commercial: He knows what he is talking about Everywhere people notice you: On the road: and everybody goes ”Awww!” Magic Trip: On the Road Brings you that big wide door opening The same way drugs did. On the road: …the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, TV commercial: Looks like it still moving Even when it stops Magic Trip: The same way drugs did On the road: burn, burn, burn Magic Trip: Big wide door opening On the road: burn, burn, burn the mad ones ...Ad ones… TV commercial: Looks like it still moving Even when it stops On the road: and everybody goes ”Awww!” TV commercial: You find most all of these same features in a low price custom and custom 300 fords too. Plus features you can get in other cars only if pay the deluxe model’s prices. Be a comparison shopper yourself - check the new kind of Ford against the others. You’ll find that 57 Ford gives you more value per dollar than any other car

01. Jack Kerouac: Now it's Jazz. The place is roaring. Allen Ginsberg: Berkley 1955 Old Metropolitan Band: Święty Antoni (Holy Anthony) Allen Ginsberg: Holy, Holy Old Metropolitan Band Święty Antoni, Święty Antoni Serce zgubiłem pod miedzą (I've lost my heart near balk) Jack Kerouac: ...the place is roaring. Allen Ginsberg: Holy Old Metropolitan Band Ach co to będzie, święty Antoni, gdy się sąsiedzi dowiedzą... (Oh! what it will be, holy Anthony when the neighbours will realise...) Allen Ginsberg: Holy the Growling saxophone Holy the Bop Apocalypse Old Metropolitan Band Achhhh, ohhhhh Allen Ginsberg: Bop apocalypse! Jack Kerouac: ...and everything is going to the beat! It’s the beat generation, it’s beat, it’s the beat to keep, it’s the beat of the heart, Allen Ginsberg: Holy Kearuoac, Holy Cassady Jack Kerouac: it’s being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown Allen Ginsberg: ...holy the unknown buggered and suffering beggars Jack Kerouac: It’s the beat generation, it’s beat, it’s the beat to keep, it’s the beat of the heart, Micheal Jackson: So beat it, just beat it! Jack Kerouac: It’s the beat generation, it’s beat, it’s the beat to keep, it’s the beat of the heart, Allen Ginsberg: Holy, holy, holy, holy Holy, holy, holy, holy Jack Kerouac: ...and everything is going to the beat! Micheal Jackson: beat it! beat it! Jack Kerouac: ...the the heart... Now it’s jazz, the place is roaring, all beautiful girls in there, one mad brunette at the bar drunk with her boys. Micheal Jackson: They told him don't you ever come around here!

01. Allen Ginsberg: I’m an old man now and a lonesome man in Kansas Roy Cohn (Al Pacino): - Mr. Wizard - why the fuck are you telling me this? Mr. Wizard - why the fuck are you telling me this Allen Ginsberg: - I’m not afraid to speak my lonesomeness in a car Roy Cohn : - why the fuck are you telling me this? Allen Ginsberg: - Not only my lonesomeness - it is ours: all over America Roy Cohn: - … it aflicts mostly homosexual. … and drug addicts Homosexual are men who know nobody and who nobody knows, does this sounds like me? does this sounds like me? And this is not hypocracy - this is reality Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry, who fucks around with guys Allen Ginsberg: Come to my lonesomeness presence into this Vortex named Kansas, into this Vortex named Kansas, into this Vortex named Kaaaansaaaas Dorothy from Wizard of Oz: - We’re not in Kansas anymore Roy Cohn: Mr. Wizard - why the fuck are you telling me this Say it! Dorothy: - we must be over the rainbow Roy Cohn: Say, Roy Cohn: “You are a homosexual”. Say it and I will proceed systematically to destroy your reputation and your practice, and your career Homosexual, Gay, Lesbian - you think these are the names that tells you who someone sleeps with? They don’t tell you that. They tell you one thing and one thing only: where does the individual soul indentify fit in the foodchain dr Henry: Roy Cohn, you are… you’ve had sex with man.. Allen Ginsberg: Who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclist dr Henry: … many many times Allen Ginsberg: and screamed with joy dr Henry: many many times Allen Ginsberg: Who blew and were blown by this human serafin dr Henry: many many times Roy Cohn: I’ve had sex with man but unlike nearly every other man of whom this is true: I bring the guy I’m screwing to the Whitehouse. And President Regan, simles at us and shakes his hand Richard Nixon: A constitutional duty as old as republic itself Roy Cohn: simles at us and says: Richard Nixon: You’re from Kansas, right? Roy Cohn: And president Regan tell you one thing, one thing only: not, who I fuck, or who fucks me but who will pick up the phone, when I call dr Henry: The president? Roy Cohn: Better! His wife. Allen Ginsberg: … Carl Salomon

01. Alan Watts: When people fight wars - I trust them I trust them If the reason for which they fight the war Is to expropriate somebody else possessions and women Because they’ll fight a merciful war: They will not destroy the possessions and the women they want to capture - they want to enjoy them That’s a war based on simply, ordinary, everyday human greed simply, ordinary, everyday human greed Lyndon B. Johnson: This is a different kind of war - There are no marching armies or solemn declarations But this is really Alan Watts: human greed Lyndon B. Johnson: War War War Richard Nixon: Good evening, my fellow Americans George W. Bush: Good afternoon Lyndon B. Johnson: I’ve today ordered to Vietnam an air-mobile division War War War George W. Bush: On my orders, the US military has begun strikes against Taliban regime in Afghanisthan Richard Nixon: The question of issue is not whether Johnsons war becomes Nixon’s war The great question it is “how can we win… America’s peace” Alan Watts: The most awful wars that are weighted are the wars weighted for moral principles You are a lousy communist, you have a philosophy that is destructive to religion and to everything that we value and reverence the most and therefore… we’ll exterminate you to the last man unless you’ll surrender unconditionally Richard Nixon: 15 years ago North Vietnam launched a campaign to impose a communist government on South Vietnam George W. Bush: The name of today’s military operation Is enduring freedom We defend not only our precious freedoms But also the freedom of people everywhere to live and raise their children free from fear As we strike military targets, we’ll also drop foods Lyndon B. Johnson: These steps, like our actions in the past are carefully measured to do, what must be done to bring an end to aggression and a peacful settlement George W. Bush: My fellow citizens, on my orders - the people you’ll liberate, will witness the honourable and decent spirit of the American military Your mission is defined, your objectives are clear - your goal is just To defend the world from great danger To defend the world from great danger Alan Watts: … we can blow up whole cities, wipe people out because we’re not greedy, we’re righteous Lyndon B. Johnson: to do what must be done George W. Bush: and cary on the work of peace we’re supported by the collective will… of The World Alan Watts: we’re righteous George W. Bush: My fellow citizens Barack Obama: never forget to always remember Lyndon B. Johnson: War George W. Bush: has no regard of morality Lyndon B. Johnson: War George W. Bush: has no regard of morality Martin Luther King: “Peace and civil rights don’t mix” - they say... George W. Bush: My fellow citizens Barack Obama: never forget to always remember Lyndon B. Johnson: War George W. Bush: has no regard of morality Alan Watts: If you’re going to do something evil - do it for a plain, honest motive - don’t do it in the name of God, George W. Bush: We did not ask for this mission, but we’ll fulfil it Alan Watts: don’t do it in the name of God - George W. Bush: May God bless our country Barack Obama: and may God continue to bless the United States of America Alan Watts: don’t do it in the name of God - because if you do - it’ll turn you into a monster, that is no longer human

TV commercial: Take the remote control from its handy storage space and You're set for hours of pure pleasure... Jack Kerouac: Television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time David Foster Wallace: One of the reason I can't own a TV is I sort of became convinced that there is something really good on another channel and that I'm missing... so instead of watching I'm scanning anxiously back and forth for this thing that I think I want but I don't even know what it is this thing... that I think I want... and that I'm missing... and what it is - is too much good stuff combined with my sick little head that thinks there is always something a little better on another channel You don't even have to get up to change it that was the problem - when it became "easy" TV commercial: Amazing Wireless Wizard Electronic Remote Control here is the ultimative television the supreme acheievement in television engineering David Foster Wallace: this thing... that I think I want... but I don't even know what it is Jack Kerouac: Television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time TV commercial: Take the remote control from its handy storage space and turn the volume down to your taste