I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging…

…red for their fearless lack of compromise with what they regard as society’s flawed conventions, or they can be reviled as drug-addled layabouts. And these artists and visionaries will be torn, too, between despising mass society for its failure…
The Ancient Cold War Between Intellectuals and the Unreflective Masses
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Benjamin Cain
Voice of Reason
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Sep 23, 2022
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
—Allen Ginsberg, Howl
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