>Kerouac stood for things that made (and still make) the consumer bourgeois middle class tremble. That also seems terribly misinformed...Kerouac if nothing els

>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.