The problem is, who is likely to find On the Road an escapist, elegiac, seductive fantasy? Sure, it’s not the ‘sensible rationalist’ slatestarcodex guy, but it’

The problem is, who is likely to find On the Road an escapist, elegiac, seductive fantasy? Sure, it’s not the ‘sensible rationalist’ slatestarcodex guy, but it’s certainly not, say, most women (unless their greatest fantasy is very masochistic). IMO the people who will find it the most seductive are precisely the trembling bourgeoisie who, of course, harbour fantasies of grabbing everything they can, using it mercilessly, throwing off the shackles of marriage and shagging everyone they can, etc. Every boring mediocre middle class white dude has these fantasies. If it was transgressive then, it ain’t now. It’s the opposite.