2623df No.4740
What do you think of the beatniks? Alan Watts was one of them. Shallow and pretentious folk who traded Christian spooks for a superficial knowledge of Buddhist dogma right?
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2623df No.4742
I don't know anything about them, but counter-culture in general a shit, and I think you're basically right.
http://rangordnung.tumblr.com/post/57020236137/zen-vulgarized-dovetails-remarkably-with-a
I love Watts though. I don't care for his mysticism, but I love his lectures on Eastern thought and existential therapy.
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a14280 No.5325
A good idea that was ultimately half-assed. Probably half-assing it was the rational level of investment, but philosophy could have benefited from some proper translations of Eastern ideas.
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078fad No.5802
you're forgetting how much of the beatnik culture was based on nihilism and even more so on existentialism.
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e9d334 No.5888
Burroughs was based, probably a CIA assassin but that only makes him even cooler.
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