The subterranean has always existed.

The subterranean has always existed. There has always been information that was not popular with the establishment. Despite the efforts of those in power to hide certain knowledge from the the bulk of mankind certain advances in the creation and dissemination of media have allowed disparate views to penetrate the mainstream. From the Library of Alexandria (the first incarnation of the internet) to Gutenberg's creation of a regularity of disseminating information more quickly than scribes could dream of with each increase in the spe and simplicity of freeing up information there has been a revolutionary change in science, the arts, philosophy and politics.

The 20th hundred has witnessed several of these revolutionary advances in information sharing. With the advances in cultivation and the revolutions in the arts and sciences there has been a rise in the popularity of certain forms of subterranean literature. From the experimental and explosive literature of the Beatniks to the music of the hippies and beyond to the quick in emergencies day, underground art has been leaking into the mainstream collective unconscious at an exponentially increasing speed

The increasing popularity of independent and subterranean music, movies, zines and refinement (or sub-culture) have created a separate world of information and ideas that are not part of the mainstream refinement Now with the internet anyone can make their ideas available to the world. This has created a recent format for the spread of subterranean literature, news and art that would not be made available in the a great deal of less interactive mainstream media. The internet is a just discovered medium not only for the spread of information and art moreover for networking these subcultures. It may be the tool that allows the subculture to slowly spread to the mainstream, bridging the information gap created according to the corporate free press and corporate advertainment.

In Celtic society, the Bardic class, the imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writers and musicians, were assigned a place of great power Great masters could be deposed by a in a strict sense phrased satiric verse, juvenal expos the canon behind the myth in classical Roman society between the walls of poems that simply told it like it was. Since then, bards and artists have had an important tenor upon the culture of the times. The artists are the critics of agriculture and the visionaries that interpret up possibilities for the what may occur hereafter In the past century, the subterranean literary tradition has taken up this vein in creating recent possibilities for the future. As we take down the digital age, where information takes an equal greater role in the formation of the instant and future, the underground literary tradition will have an calm more important role, and with the aid of the internet the ideas of the subterranean can be freely spread to the people

It was the age of the R Scare. America was united in conformity and the same of the major tools used to create this conformity was the of the present day mass media. Hollywood and television serv as powerful propaganda tools. The American way of life had been standardized. American values were uniform. Either you were American (a God-loving believer in released enterprise devoted to simple suburban life) or you were a commie pinko fag.

The 50's was a frightening example of in what manner easily America could become a fascist state. Blind patriotism and hatred of a universal enemy were benchmarks of the age of Father Knows Best and McCarthy. Orson Welles and other thinkers ahead of their time were blacklisted and pushed to the fringes of the mainstream. Far below the mainstream, however, a cluster of revolutionary thinkers and artists were releasing information that would create an intellectual explosion and which influenced the subterranean of the following generations.

A cluster of writers, many of them commie pinko fags, emerg from the literary sight of the East and West coast and created a genre of literature that was far remov from the whitewashed conformity of everyday American life in the 50's. William s Burroughs, an openly homosexual novelist. grandson of the inventor of the adding machine and assassin of his wife, published the novel Junkie: Confessions of an Unreformed Addict in the early part of the decade of conformity, Burrough also wrote a series of novels, including Naked luncheon The Soft Machine, The Ticket that Explod and others that introduced the reader to Interzone.

Interzone was a realm that existed simply in the mind of the author. It was a certain quantity of part of the Collective Unconscious that included as characters many other members of the Beat Generation. The fictional characters were based forward actual humans, but were still fictions. Burroughs' perception of these real family were fictional, creations of his concede imagination. It is hinted in Burroughs' work that Interzone was a extremely real place, if only in his head, and was responsible for many of the major consequences in his actual life, including the mysterious death of his wife.

Allen Ginsberg rend asunder onto the Beat scene with the metrical composition Howl which succeeded in introducing to the canon of American literature vulgarity, homosexuality and four literal sense words. The 50's was America's Victorian age and Ginsberg and the other Beats were fighting the Puritans each chance they got. Ginsberg's cry was an expose of the actuality of the 50's as well as a diatribe onward American culture in general. America was not the land of freedom of opportunity sung of by the agency of Walt Whitman, one of Ginsberg's literary heroes. It had grown stale and become everything that it wasn't suppos to be.