The Four Young Men Who May Help Carry Our Nation through These Tough Times - American Thinker

The Four Young Men Who May Help Carry Our Nation through These Tough Times - American Thinker

Or, better still, contrast them with the original counterculture, the Beat Poets, who have all written their final chapters.  Two of the five original members committed murder.  Three of them were drug addicts; Jack Kerouac was an alcoholic.  Homosexuality played a part in all of their lives, with the possible exception of Kerouac: Neal Cassady dabbled as a male prostitute in his youth; Lucien Carr stabbed an older male with whom he had a destructive relationship that may or may not have been physical; William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg almost certainly bedded boys who were well below the age of consent, with Ginsberg openly advocating for the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).  Both Kerouac and Ginsberg humiliated themselves on William F. Buckley's Firing Line TV show, Kerouac because he was drunk and Ginsberg because he insisted on performing a cringingly awkward Hare Krishna chant.  Cassady died of a heart attack at age 42 while under the influence of depressants.  He is reputed to have said, "[T]wenty years of fast living — there's just not much left, and my kids are all screwed up. Don't do what I have done." Kerouac died broken both financially and physically at 47 from internal hemorrhaging.