Why might americans have had a negative view of the beatnik movement?

The Beatnik movement was a name given to a type of urban culture that was common in the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. It is usually linked with the Beat Generation of literature.

The Beatnik movement was usually linked with topics such as pseudo-intellectualism, drug use and non-conformisms. Americans at that time might have disliked this because it expressed a view that was against most elements of society. The generation was seen as lazy or as complainers who refused to do their part to continue moving society forward.

there are two main types of historical sources: primary sources and secondary sources. a primary source is something that originates from the past. it can be a chronicle, a piece of pottery, or even a piece of glacial ice that gives us climate data about the levels of atmospheric carbon one thousand years ago.