truthdig's video: Robert Scheer speaks with 100 year old Revolutionary Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer talks with his lifelong friend and legendary poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti who just turned a 100 years old. The two discuss a host of topics including the importance of not selling out and the beginning of San Francisco’s landmark City Lights bookshop. They discuss its roots in an egalitarian desire to both promote and protect writers, as well as provide a safe space for local artists to congregate. “What Lawrence represents is the ultimate uncompromising spirit,” says Scheer, “not in the sense of some pompous asshole who says, ‘I know the truth and here it is,’ but in the sense of saying, ‘I am a bullshit detector … whose main concern is that the average person and artists and poets and everybody not get fucked over.”  For more click here: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/lawrence-ferlinghetti-is-still-revolutionary-at-age-100/