Beat aesthetic

The license to live in the present tense, meaning I can do whatever the hell I want beacause there are no consequences, no tomorrow.  No job to tie me down, no family to bore me, nothing to suck the lifeblood out of me, just living in the moment.  And I don't care how I appear, or look or even smell, because I am what I am and you can fuck off! 

This is the Beatnik of the 60's, created from the previous generation through a trial by fire of attempts at civil disobediance in a time when that act was itself considered Treason.  When any source of discontent towards our form of government was attacked with a viciousness that same government could only dream of using against our communist enemies. 

This perception is best described, in my opinion, as laziness.  The Beats have stolen what was an art form and trampled it with their replication of something misunderstood.  They believe they are in the same bed as the true performers, when they have nothing to bring to the party but used condoms, recycled, worn.  There are really no more true innovators as everything we see, hear and read is just a redo of what the great ones accomplished before us.