SLSL Succession of the Criminally Insane (was Has anyone seen a Pynchon book lately?)

[prozak at anus.com]

> I saw a similar idea recently, I think in a review of
> Louis Menand's recent book of essays.  It was noted
> that the sixties was in many ways profoundly
> conservative, even narrow-minded; those for whom the
> sixties is best remembered (radicals, hippies) were
> harshly judgemental of  everyone who didn't look and
> think as they did.  One had merely to be too old (the
> cut-off being thirty!) or short-haired or like the
> wrong music to be written off. 

I think Nietzsche's conceptualization of liberalism fits in this 
context: revenge on others for natural traits they possess that are 
rare among the masses.

The beatniks seemed to me the founding "ideas" behind what became the 
hippies anyway, and they were more controversial. Namely Burroughs, 
as he was the brains behind that movement.

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