♪ >> america, in the early '60s, it was a real good time of pros party, but it was also a stagnant time in spiritual growth. things were at a stand still. the baseline culture was materialism. and also the feeling that the culture itself didn't honor the human spirit, and didn't honor creativity. ♪ >> in the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst a social movement called the beat generation. a novel titled "on the road" became a best seller. >> when kerouac's book comes out, it becomes a revolution, defined a new generation of what being beat means and a spiritual revolution, that if we're living in an age of conformity, if everybody's trying to work for the corporation that you're