I was looking up some interviews with Allen Ginsberg on YouTube and came across this video. Ginsberg talks about the Beat Generation and where his inspiration comes from and how Bob Dylan himself was influenced and inspired by Jack Kerouac's work. He also talks about censorship and how so much of his work was disapproved for indecent language by the government. "Moral minority" is what he calls this system/movement. It isn't surprising to see that Ginsberg has had a lot of run-ins involving censorship because if we read most of his poetry he does use a lot of colorful graphic language and words. Perhaps in this video he is protesting for the freedom of speech, or he's speaking out against those who claim that the censorship rightly "guards public money" and that citizens shouldn't spend money on "degenerate art." Is Beat poetry/art really "degenerate art" that shouldn't be funded? Is that the true reason why the government censors so much of what so many writers have created during this time? Either way, in this interview, he definitely tells us what he thinks of right-wing politics.
-Gina
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