middle class or capitalism or even respectability. This is the
the spiritually underprivileged and the crippled of soul-young men
can't think straight and so hate anyone who can; young men who
get outside the morass of self and so construct definitions of feeling
exclude all human beings who manage to live, even miserably,
world of objects; young men who are burdened unto death with
specially poignant sexual anxiety that America-in its eternal
of erotic glory and its spiteful withholding of actual erotic po:sslb,Ultf
seems bent on breeding, and who therefore dream of the
perfect orgasm, which excuses all sexual failures in the real world.
long ago, Norman Mailer suggested that the rise of the hipster may
resent "the first wind of a second revolution in this century, moving
forward toward action and more rational equitable distribution,
backward toward being and the secrets of human energy." To tell
truth, whenever I hear anyone talking about instinct and being
the secrets of human energy, I get nervous ; next thing you know
be saying that violence is just fine, and then I begin wondering
he really thinks that kicking someone in the teeth or sticking a
between his ribs are deeds to be admired. History, after all-and
cially the history of modern times-teaches that there is a close
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