olddustytrail 5 days ago

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

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  • Y_Y 4 days ago

    How is that supposed to make anyone click on an ad?

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    • falcor84 4 days ago

      Just to expand upon the reference, the comment you responded to is the first stanza of Allen Ginsberg poem "Howl" [0] published in 1956, which is what Hammerbacher paraphrased in the quote that I shared. "Howl" is amazing on its own though, and I highly recommend that people read the whole thing and/or watch the 2010 film about Ginsberg's life where James Franco recites it in its entirety[1]. And as a follow-up, I also highly recommend Scott Alexander's "Meditations on Moloch" that takes inspiration from the poem to analyze societal failures of coordination.

      [0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl

      [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049402/

      [2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

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      • Y_Y 4 days ago

        Thanks for adding the background, much more helpful than my glib nonsense.

        I feel that Meditations on Moloch should be mandatory study for anyone who lives in a society.

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