Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "Watch Those Poetic Beatniks Provoke The 60s Generation" video.

  1. What "radicalized" me was being eligible for the draft during war time, and reading everything I could get my hands on, while in high school, by moral philosopher Mark Twain, based on being blown away by _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_.
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  2. Pt was also high anxiety for males who were draft-eligible. They were not entirely the "best of times".
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  3.  @ReDNaLzz  Perhaps you should worry about stealing the screen name you use.
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  4. Reality was an unwelcome intrusion.
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  5.  FredCarpenter-vv9ld  When I think about it, it goes back to experiences for earliest childhood. I had two older siblings, and while they began school, I was on my own as the youngest, and I explored the outdoors in the area of the backyard. I was curious about the animals I saw, and felt they were friendly. Everyone else I knew would have attacked and killed them -- I had no such urge; and that continued as my individual view, against the generalized violence. And as the youngest, the rules were made up by my mother, handed down, and there was no court of appeals. In third grade, when I first learned about Lincoln (he was my first "hero") and his principle "Everybody equal before the law," I became a civil rights activist beginning with my position in the family. But everywhere was violent, and that was not my urge, so that was not an option for me. Those and other experiences as an individual -- often dismissed by others -- informing my individual view from earliest childhood made me something of an "outsider" as an observer.
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  6. Not a person on which to model oneself.
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