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Yeah but you might still disagree with what he is saying, for numerous reasons. Acting like an a-hole just for the sake of 'fuck it' mentality ain't something
by saiya-jin 7y ago
Yeah but you might still disagree with what he is saying, for numerous reasons.
Acting like an a-hole just for the sake of 'fuck it' mentality ain't something to admire for many, doesn't matter if 70 years ago or tomorrow.
To wrap everybody who doesn't blindly admire his discussed actions as 'middle-class technocratic people' doesn't add much to the discussion apart from certain snobbishness of 'I am better than you are if you don't agree with me'.
We did / are doing some pretty crazy shit in our lives that Kerouac never even dreamed about, we just don't need to be a-holes while doing it. A bit of respect goes much longer way.
- keiferski 7y agoI'm not arguing that you should agree with Kerouac, but that the Slate Star Codex review is deeply misinformed in a way typical of people with a certain mindset.
- throwaway_tech 7y ago>Kerouac stood for things that made (and still make) the consumer bourgeois middle class tremble. That also seems terribly misinformed...Kerouac if nothing else was a self-loathing member of the consumer bourgeois middle class. He was a college educated author who "got his kicks" hanging out with people the middle class traditionally looked down on, and he went on road trips by bumming money from his aunt. Yet, Kerouac is shown to have no conviction in his own beliefs as he continually abandons these very people at the first sign of threatening his good times.
- ulisesrmzroche 7y agoHe wasn’t acting like an asshole just for fun. This is a naive interpretation. Have y’all even tried reading the wiki, at least?