Here’s the drunk conservative hippie hater Jack Kerouac, interviewed on William F. Buckley’s show:
His colleague William S. Burroughs attempts to explain what Kerouac had done, even though he had no idea he was doing it.
“Absolutely unprecedented. There’s never been anything like it before. Penetrating the Arab countries, which was really a hermetic society.”
By their fruits we shall know what we shouldn’t.
And if what shouldn’t be known is known, what then?
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4 responses to “A revolution started by a right-wing, hippie-hating drunk in the 1950s?”
Good one!
Proves my point about the 50s vs. the 60s. Drunk off his ass, three sheets to the wind and half in the bag Kerouac still makes more sense than Meathead.
(Just wondering, if “half in the bag” means falling down drunk, what state of drunkness is being entirely in the bag?)
Dead, perhaps?
Apples and oranges? Kerouac was a real person – bats (or not) as he may have been – “Meathead” was a leftie-caricature tellie personality?
Of course he made more sense. Reality, strange as it may be, always does. Kerouac was real.
Thanks Kathy. Reality does have a way of winning out, even if conventional mores are in opposition at the time (or in attempts at revision later…)