Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- .This section is about the concepts of beat, cool and hip. Topics include: ( ) Beats. ( ) Cool. ( ) Hip. ( ) Hippies. --- 1/24/2006
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- (1) Cool as knowledgeable. Uncool as ignorance. (2) Cool as experienced. Uncool as naive. --- 9/15/1998
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Beat dichotomies: (1) City vs. wilds. (2) Asceticism vs. hedonism. (3) Poor vs. rich. (4) Love vs. hate. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Beat philosophy. Is it a happy thing you go out and do, or is it a sad thing that just sort of happens to you, or is it a big group of things that fit together, that you either see clearly or you don't? Kerouac saw it most and clearest, and wrote it best. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Beats had a point but took it to a degree too extreme for the practical individual. Their point was that modern work and culture destroy conscious and unconscious freedom of thought and action. Modern culture is too repressive, and it destroys minds. Get free and go wild. A more moderate position is to say to try to stay free in thought and action and still hold a job. Is it possible? --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Beats went beyond social norms, exploring. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Beats were about youth, freedom, and neurotic aimlessness. Kerouac captured youth (esp. burnouts) like no one has before or since. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Beats. Alternating bouts of (1) Asceticism: intellectual, artistic, Zen buddhism vs. (2) Decadence: sex, drugs, rock, danger (crime, climb). (3) Insanity and genius. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Beats. The beats are about fun and freedom. You will never taste fun and freedom as purely as in the beat writings. Everyone should read them and go out and experience it for themselves between the age of 15 and 25. Otherwise you will miss the idea and experience of freedom and fun. They are among the best life has to offer. --- 07/01/1994
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Beats. The beats confronted (1) Rebellion vs. conformity (ex. leisure vs. work?). (2) Reason vs. emotion (ex. science vs. art). (3) Problems with imbalances either way. (4) Arguments pro and contra each. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Beats. The philosophy of the primacy of experiential knowledge (Kerouac). One must experience drugs, poverty, etc. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Beats. To experience, experiment, and to get wired up, vs. to get burnt out and destroyed. The beats knew both. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Cool and hip. The urge to be cool and hip is something genetically hardwired into humans, that expresses itself most strongly during the teens and twenties. It probably has some sort of adaptive evolutionary purpose. It is a mistake to think that cool and hip began with the hippies, beatniks, decadents or romantics. Cool and hip go way, way back to when we used to roam the savannah. --- 9/28/2000
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Cool means drugs, nature, intelligent. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Cool: (1) unemotional vs. (2) inexpressive of emotion. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Cool: emotionally insensitive and/or inexpressive. Hot: emotionally sensitive and/or expressive. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Cool: unconscious or conscious emotional reserve. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Cool. Three uses of cool. (1) The purpose of cool, the usefulness of cool, is to not look too nervous, to not look overly excited. (2) Another use of cool is as a defense, to gain a sense of control. A boundary. (3) Another purpose of cool is to look less like a child and more like an adult. --- 3/11/2000
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Counter-culture. (1) Rebel, nonconformist, wild, anarchic. (2) Artist: (3) Decadence: abuse sex, drugs, rock and roll, booze. (4) Hedonism: enjoy, party. (5) Bohemian: (6) Traveler: motion, allegiance to no culture. Cultural relativism, cosmopolitan. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Counter-culture. (1) We don't have any duties vs. we have duty in a few areas, and we have few duties in each area. (2) We should not be controlled. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Counter-culture. Hedonism. Fun hogs specialize in having fun. Leisure pursuits rule their lives. They work to gain leisure time and money. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Counter-culture. Radical. Four definitions: (1) Dangerous. (2) Unconventional. (3) New. (4) Extreme left or right. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Counter-culture. Rebellion. (1) Youth. (2) Wild life as flaunting conventions vs. pure evil. (3) Vulgarians: sex, drugs, rock and roll, freedom. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Counter-culture. Rock and roll as (1) fun vs. (2) rebellion (freedom) vs. (3) decadence (self-destruction). --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Counter-culture. Various counter culture philosophies. (1) Working hard is not important. Material things are not important. (2) Relax, have a good time. (3) Noncompetitive, nonmaterialistic. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Counter-cultures like beats, hippies, etc. (1) Fu*k work, money and stuff. (2) Relax, have a good time, noncompetitive, nonacquisitve. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hip philosophy. Hip as (1) Environment: American Indian. Nature as friend, not impartial or foe. Technology as foe, not impartial or friend. (2) Eastern philosophy: Zen, vegetarianism. (3) Social. Peace and harmony. Cooperation. War protest. (4) Freedom. Beats. Existentialists. Civil rights for blacks and women. Panthers. Yippies. (5) Fun. Sex, drugs, and rock, vs. money, sex, and power. Importance of play and joy. The musical revolution of rock. --- 09/01/1994
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hip, Fresh, Trendy, With it, Up to date, and In the loop. (1) Hip can refer to the worlds of music and fashion. (2) Hip can apply to the world of the news and current events. (3) Hip can manifest itself in the world of technology, where geeks try to keep up with the latest and greatest computers. (4) These are all expression of people unconsciously trying to express that they are prime mating material. The only alternative is to be Old, Passe', and Out of touch, which are all terms that are another way of saying that they are not courting material. --- 12/7/2000
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hip: intellectual, emotional, and/or experiential understanding of poverty, crime, drugs, bohemia, arts, etc. Unhip: no understanding of same. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hip: means intellectual, emotional, and experiential knowledge of (1) Minority experiences. (2) Economic poverty, blue collar blues. (3) Arts: blues music and jazz. (4) Foreign cultures. (5) Beatness, failure, losers. (6) Rootless wandering, metaphysical homelessness, nomad. (7) Drugs, booze, smoking (as enjoyment and torture). (8) Death and danger, crime, sleazy sex. (9) Gambling (metaphysical knowledge of chance and risk). (10) Rebellion, nonconformity, social outcast. (11) Waste, decadence. (12) Slackers, aimlessness, laziness, apathy. (13) Fun hogs, hedonism. (14) Bohemianism. (15) Why is this knowledge important? Too many smart people know only half the story, the optimistic view of life sold to them by a society that wants to use them. To be fully smart and balanced you have to be hip. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hip. Beats: intellectual (esp. literary). Hippies: dopes, non-intellectual. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hip. Definitions of unhip: (1) Unhip as nerd (brain). (2) Unhip as square (traditional). (3) Unhip as weeb (wimp). (4) Unhip as spaz (klutz). (5) Unhip as fashion victim. --- 9/15/1998
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hip. The beats: intellectual, existential? The hippies: leisure philosophy, nature philosophy. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hip. Why are some individuals attracted to hipness only intellectually vs. why are some individuals driven to hipness and destruction. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippie philosophy strengths and weaknesses. Opponents call it childlike, passive, druggies, mindless. --- 09/01/1994
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippie philosophy. (1) Anti-technology. (2) Pro leisure. Nature. Likes American Indian. (3) Better to mellow out physically and mentally in a nice natural environment (especially mountains) than to undergo physical and psychological stress (work) in a shit environment (city). --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippie types. (1) Short term (trustafarians) vs. long term. (2) Authentic (givers) vs. fakes (voyeurs and opportunists). --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippie, definitional disputes. Different people feel the essence of hippness is (1) Militant left wing radicalism (anarchism or commie). (2) Stupidity, mindlessness (Zen, drugs). (3) Peacefulness, pacifism. (4) I disagree with all of these views of hipness. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. (1) (New) dull head philosophy. Better to totally turn off than to get involved in anything society puts out. Is such a position possible? (2) Opposite view is to totally do it society's way, which is the believers philosophy. Just do what others are doing. Do what the president says to do. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. (1) Arguments pro and contra hippie philosophy. (2) Type of persons attracted and repelled to hippie philosophy depends how much action you like, and how much tension you like. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. (1) Extreme of asceticism vs. (2) extreme of debauchery vs. (3) the normal (middle) way. All three have strengths and weaknesses. To expose/enlighten and miss/hide. The beats used both extremes. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. Dead heads: relaxes and opens the mind. Simple, organic, cooperative vs. complex, manmade, conflict. --- 04/30/1993
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. Dead heads. (1) Pro: Tolerant of diversity and eccentricity. Open and honest. Relaxed and non-competitive. (2) Contra: Cult thinking. Cult behavior. Get nothing done. --- 12/30/1992
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. Deadheads. (1) Strong deadhead-ism. (A) No one has to think. (B) No one has to work. (C) We can all live in huts and eat nuts and berries. (2) Weak deadhead-ism replaces "no one" with "I". --- 06/30/1993
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. History of the trans-generational left: Romantics. Decedents. Dada. Beats. Hippies. Generation x. --- 09/01/1994
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. Surfing = Grateful Dead. Healthy, stupid, non-violent, hedonistic (all pleasure, no pain), nature, rebellious, exciting, fun, identifiable. Aesthetics: surfboards, and waves, and women in bikinis are beautiful things. --- 04/30/1993
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. Woodstock spirit. (1) Grooving with your new neighbors. Dance and be happy. (2) Going with the flow. --- 09/10/1994
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. Woodstock. (1) Money making. (2) Socializing. One big cocktail party. (3) A philosophy of various metaphysical, epistemological, ethical and aesthetic views. (4) Belief in power and rightness of Sex, (5) Drugs, and (6) Rock and roll. (7) Peace. (8) Harmony. (9) Toleration. (10) Back to nature. Health food. Environment and ecology. --- 09/01/1994
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. Woodstock. (1)(A) The original Woodstock was free music, no rules, but with mud, no water or food or facilities and with traffic jams. (B) The new Woodstock had rappers and thrashers. It was more about money, corporate sponsorship, big advertising. A reunion was good. Bringing in a new generation is good. It could never be done today like they did it then, for safety and health reasons. (2) The name Woodstock (the village, the farm, the old concert, the new concert) stands for something. It stands for the radical left. It is not just another concert like Live Aid, Farm Aid, Cal Jam, Monsters of Rock, Altamont, Monterey Pop, etc. It is a gathering of tribes. --- 09/01/1994
Philosophy, specific philosophies, beats cool hip. --- Hippies. Woodstock. Back then people believed strongly that sex, drugs, rock, and youth had great power to change the world and enlighten you as an individual. Today no one believes it, or gives a shit, and rightly so? --- 09/01/1994