Buckley, Kerouac, Sanders and Yablonsky discuss Hippies

A 1968 episode of William F. Buckley's Firing Line, featuring a drunken Jack Kerouac, the Fug's Ed Sanders and a clueless academic, Lewis Yablonsky, discussing the "Hippie" movement. For more post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing, music and what-not, see http://www.sensitiveskinmagazine.com.

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[liquidmaco]

who says you cant be both?

[ZlejChleba]

How come these guys know that Czechoslovakia is not Chechnya and today's americans (not all of course) don't?

[ZlejChleba]

touché ;)

[ReignOfPraine]

What makes you think that Americans in those days did?

[keystothebox]

Buckley's condescending tone reminds me of Peirce Morgan, only he has something useful to say, as opposed to Peirce Morgan who is on par with a hostile retarded fish.

[ZlejChleba]

a lot of people think that Czechoslovakia still exist, I personnaly met a guy from Switzerland (!) who thought that Prague was Moscow's suburb and Czechoslovakia was a part of USSR (which he thought still existed).

[Trevor Miller]

What is with the fucking doorbell?

[masdav94]

Who thought Czechoslovakia is Chechnya? Wait...who thinks Czechoslovakia still exists?

[masdav94]

Most geniuses are deeply disturbed individuals with abnormal minds. That's what allows them to be geniuses and not an Average Joe in the everyday world.

[Bill Wilkie]

Buckley is so unintentionally comic.

[Gary Valdez]

Hippies are ungroomed anti-Americans! Down with all that! Men growing their hair long to look like women. Just terrible!