Was Alan Ginsburg the most important person since WWII?

[ghostsinthemachine]

Thinking so.

First openly gay person I remember ever seeing or knowing about.

Got Bob Dylan stoned who in turn got the Beatles stoned who got the world stoned. (Rock music went from "Love Me do" to "I crawled off to sleep in the bath&quot

"Howl" of course.

Got Kerouak, Bukowski and Burroughs published.

I've read biography after biography and history of the history book of the times, musicians, authors, major players etc and he walks through every single on of them.

[cali]

1. I don't really think in those terms, but no doubt he was of enormous cultural significance

I was at his funeral service in 1997, at Karme Choling- not because I knew him just as a member of the Sangha

[Brother Buzz]

2. In my world, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the glue that held it together; the man behind the curtain

[TlalocW]

3. No

That would be me.

TlalocW

[ghostsinthemachine]

4. Damn, how could I forget?!?

Sorry.

[LordGlenconner]

5. Meh I'll go with Jonas Salk

[ghostsinthemachine]

6. Good one and one of the only

persons of importance that did not have a known drug history.

[ghostsinthemachine]

7. Interesting this shows up...

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[virgogal]

8. He was somewhat influential but not that important.

Roosevelt was important.

Mao was important.

Mandela was important.

[edhopper]

9. If one thing he and others showed us

It's not a competition.
He was significant and left us better.

[charlyvi]

10. I'll probably get some flack here, but I'm old, so go easy.

LBJ.

Medicare, Civil Rights Act, Head Start. Except for Vietnam, he would rank right up there with FDR.