integration, creativity, diversity, marginal culture

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Thank you! Would you expand on margincal culture for me?

that one made by the cybernomads, non-conformists, those on the margins of system and society, the degens, borderless borderline misfits, the unrecognized cogs in establishment's wheels.

or as Ginsberg put it in howl:

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by

madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn

looking for an angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly

connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat

up smoking in the supernatural darkness of

cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities

contemplating jazz,

who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and

saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,

who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes

hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy

among the scholars of war."