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Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kerouac were all on the side of the savage. That their penny-ante gnosticism was not only perpetuated but mythologized and spread abroad as a gospel of emancipation is something for which we have the Sixties to thank -- or to blame.
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― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
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The romance that has surrounded the Beat generation since the mid-Sixties has acted as a kind of sentimental glaze, obscuring its fundamentally nihilistic impulse under a heap of bogus rhetoric about liberation, spontaneity, and 'startling oases of creativity', Notwithstanding their recent media media make-over, the Beats were not Promethean iconoclasts. They were drug-abusing sexual predators and infantilized narcissists whose shamelessness helped dupe a confused and gullible public into believ
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― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
