d-harma blues

"Think of millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs tramping around the back country and hitchhiking and bringing the word down to everybody."

This rucksack revolution of making eastern and western culture come together is so real. They really are trying to show how much simpler and happier they live because of their lifestyle. exploring the back country without worries and loving life no commitments.

d-harma blues

", the americans out there, they have so little real sense of america and who the people are who really dig buddhism here, and they don't have any use for poetry."

Ray is annoyed that people in america dont apreciate poetry and religion. life is so bliss to them un meaningless. They have learned to take things slow while others learn to not waste a single day.

paper topic

my paper topic is Religion vs. The Norm

d-harma blues

"I dont wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man i wanta be enlightened by actions."

To Japhy actions are alot more powerfull than words. He finds talking less meaningfull because after all there just words. Actions can be physical and more whet to the mind than a dull sentence.

d-harma blues

"They thought i was crazy, but everybody that gave me a ride i'de spin 'em the Dharmy, boy, and leave 'em enlightened."

Its weird how Ray sortove gave up on everybody and didnt try and teach everyone the way of the dharma. while Japhy on the other hand had said he would tell everyone and make a change in the way they thought. japhy seems to be starting the rucksack revoulution more the Ray. Ray seems to becoming the anarchist scared of society

d-harma blues

"I have all the time in the world form life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing, infinitivley perfect within, why cry, why worry, perfect like mind essence and the minds of bannana peels."

in life we have so much time to take things at a slower pace. We can free ourselves from haste by doing what is neccesary when its needed the most. Perfecting our mindset is more immportant than perfecting ourselves to a hastefull lifestyle.

"so what did i care wgat the old tobacco-chewing stickwhittlers at the crossroads store had to say about my mortal eccentricity, we all get to be gum in graves anyway."

No one can say that your lifestyle is wrong or what is right or wrong. We all live our life differntly to what we trie to make ourselves happy with. Since were all gonna be dead eventually why not just do whatever floats your boat.

"I didnt want to have anything to do, really, either with Japhy's ides about society or with any of Alvah's ideas about grasping life as much as you can because of its sweet sadness and because you would be dead some day."

Its clear these three amigos have very differnt view on life. Japhy is really philisophical and beleives in anti materialism. Alvah is live every day as if it were your last and enjoy everysecond. Thou Ray is down for whatever sort of inbetween doesnt really care either way he likes a nice dinner but enjoys at times living as a bobo.

d-harma blues

"But there was wisdom in it all, as youll see if you take a walk somewhere on a suburban street and pass house afterv house after house on both sides the street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside small blue squares of tv, each family riveting its attention..."

Kerowac is saying that in the house all life revolves around the tv and to them its ok. they beleive eventually a rucksack revoultion will start and all this will dissapear. Its ironic how everyone has a carbon copy lifestyle based on the living room tv.

Hippie Terrorism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-terrorism , http://www.cdfe.org/ecoterror.htm
These are 2 websites ive used to find information on the topic.

Eco terrorism is the act of comminting a crim to save nature and politicaly falls under terrorism. There are many groups out there such as earth first and ELF that send a message by commiting vandelous acts such as graffit and property destruction. People fighting for this cause are usaually generalized as hippies but in reality there just normal people. Many are arrested and labeled as terrorist and kept close eyes on also serving harsh punishments.

d-harma blues

"i had never had a happier moment in my life than those lonley moments coming down that little deer trace..."

when the happiest moment was his lonleyest moment because he was tired from a day of hiking. That the moonlight and the deer poop had lead him back home. Rather than a map or some flashlights.

d-harma blues

"By god you're right, all those sedentary bums sitting around on pillows hearing the cry of the trumphant mountain smasher, they don't deserve it.

In a way this group are sortove radical and really feal superior to those living normal lives. This is why they choose to seperate themselves from society. when youre on top of the mountain you feel free because the elavation and wind that the think its a high normal people will never experiance

d-harma blues

"It was beautiful. The pinkness vanished and then it was all purple dusk and the roar of the silence was like a wash of diamond waves going through the liquid porches of our ears, enough to soothe a man a thousand years."

The silence of nature is actually very loud. The bueaty of it all is amazing that when you listen to eat the sound of trees and birds you feel one with the earth. You feel content to be where you are.

d-harma blues

"The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a peice of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify to this feeling."

The woods is this kind of mystical place were we are in touch with nature. No forest is really alike the senses that it gives off. also that so many things have goon by while the woods have just been there always the same.

D-harma blues

And if you dont beleive me come back in a million years and deny it, For What is Time?

Ray is trying to convince allvah to life an alternative way. Ray is replying back that if he doesnt beleive in what he says he could change that but the time it takes does not matter in life. So time is really a clock counting till death.

d-harma blues

"at this time i was a perfect dhrama bum myself and considered myself a religous wanderer."

I find this true because through out the chapter he is taking the simple ist was to get by. For example hitcking onto the train. Or sleeping on the beach being one with nature.

Toms quote

"Perhaps the most powerful way in which we conspire against ourselves is the simple fact that we have jobs. We are willingly part of a world designed for the convenience of what Shakespeare called “the visible God”: money. When I say we have jobs, I mean that we find in them our home, our sense of being grounded in the world, grounded in a vast social and economic order. It is a spectacularly complex, even breathtaking, order, and it has two enormous and related problems. First, it seems to be largely responsible for the destruction of the natural world. Second, it has the strong tendency to reduce the human beings inhabiting it to two functions, working and consuming. It tends to hollow us out. It creates a hole in our sense of ourselves and of this country, and it leaves us with few alternatives but to try to fill that hole with money and the things money buys. We are not free to dismiss money because we fear that we’d disappear, we’d be nothing at all without it. Money is, in the words of Buddhist writer David Loy, “the flight from emptiness that makes life empty.

The writer ends the quote how he does to leave a lasting effect on the audiance with a quote from a buddhist because people generalize them to be knowing of the inner self and surroundings so if he said it it must be correct. I deffinatley belive money does change us becuase we must work for it the way we want to live creating a constant lifestyle.

are these actual miles

"They run everywhere in her flesh, dozens, perhaps hundreds of them. He remembers waking up the morning after they bought the car, seeing it, there in the drive, in the sun, gleaming."

the strech marks is the stress they go through. these hundreds because of their problems of bankrubacy.

are these actual miles

"They buy what they want. If they can't pay, they charge. They sign up."

This is an example of the 50's and the american dream. People like this are struggleing with money. But they persist to buy and do what they can to keep possesions