Hard to read Kerouac's "On the Road", fueled by GI checks, in the Katznelson/@tanehisicoates era w/o seeing it as a white privilege tour
@PatrickIber Kerouac & Burroughs feared that under liberalism/socialism they wouldn't be able to buy drugs & sex. Bohemian libertarians.
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@HeerJeet Even the emphasis on sexual freedom, which is defensible in some ways w/r/t norms of era, was deeply anti-feminist -
@PatrickIber The freedom Burroughs found in Mexico was the right to kill his wife, no questions asked. That might be unfair.
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