"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 privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn’t really want anyway such
as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and
deodorants 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 thousands 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 happier, and all of ‘em 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
everybody and to all living creatures.”― Jack Kerouac, The
Dharma Bums
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