 Despite the role which his literary work played in inspiring the counterculture movement of the 1960s, Kerouac was not fond of the movement and also openly criticized it.Arguments over the movement, which Kerouac believed was only an excuse to be "spiteful," also resulted in him splitting with Ginsberg by 1968.Also in 1968, he appeared on the television show "Firing Line" produced and hosted by William F. Buckley Jr. (a friend of Kerouac's from his college years).