| Rucksack Revolution "See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the priviledge of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refridgerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deoderants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume... I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution, thousand or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls even happier, all of them Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everbody and to all living creatures..." (The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac) Thanks for the book Chris |