the beat generation sucked

i’m halfway through reading naked lunch by william s burroughs and i’m putting it down because its one of the most terrible dogshit trash books i’ve ever read. fuck the beat generation as a movement, culture and as a motherfuckin crew and if you wanna be down with the beat generation then fuck you too. these people were all losers who did a bunch of heroin and wrote bad poetry and then cried when they got censored by the authorities. the authorities fucked up they should have censored burroughs and ginsberg and kerouac on the grounds of “you’re shitty drug addicts who have nothing to contribute to literature or humanity in general please god shut the fuck up” instead of being offended by all the sex and drug use. it was like the dimes square of its time although DS is like a terrible farce of beatniks.

i’m not offended by the sex or drugs in naked lunch, that’s not why i’m throwing it away, i’m not some fox news puritan. it’s because the sex and drugs doesn’t actually mean anything. it has nothing to say. it’s porn. every short story in this book is just a copy and paste of itself. “uhh there’s a boy and then someone jerked off the boy and then the boy came and then we all did heroin” copy and paste for 200 pages. wow amazing. people think this is actually good and i feel bad for them. its like a bad 4chan troll trying to bait for (You)s. nothing more boring and dull then someone trying to be offensive. like okay man we all get it. congratulations you’re gonna piss off some wacko evangelical moms and weepy beard guys who watch MSNBC, meanwhile the rest of us in society aren’t impressed by your shit we think it’s really lame actually.

i actually like depraved art, disgusting art, shit like francis bacon and vincent gallo and blood meridian and delicious tacos and hunter s thompson and jg ballard. i like stories about the cruelty and darkness of humanity. but i like all that stuff because it has a human voice behind it. i mean shit even the brown bunny is a tragic story behind the infamous blowjob scene. yeah yeah hunter s thompson wrote about drugs all the time but read his obituary on nixon or the piece he wrote after 9/11 for espn and tell me there’s no human behind that. there’s a passion and a rage and a compassion for people behind all the cocaine and heroin and psychidelic use. he was a fucked up guy but at least he was alive. burroughs on the other hand doesn’t feel alive. all the characters in the stories of naked lunch are cardboard cutouts. hollow frames. they just exist to shock you and thats it. burroughs has nothing interesting to say about addiction or drug use or being a foreigner in a distant land or anything like that, no, he just wants to come off as a COOL guy who does hella drugs and man isn’t how BADASS how i had so much SEX and did so many DRUGS. god it’s so embarrassing. it’s like something i would have liked when i was 14 back when i thought tucker max was cool. but most people grow out of it, clearly these guys didn’t.

the beatniks and hippies were embarrassing. joan didion was right about them in her piece slouching towards bethelhem. does any of the beat generation/hippie art still hold up? no it doesn’t. it all sucks. just dogshit. well actually pet sounds and smile are good but i dunno if brian wilson counts as a hippie. crazy genius yeah. the kanye west of his era. i dunno about hippie. if he is though he’s the one exception. the rest can all fuck off into the trash can of history.

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two weeks no hard drugs and no twitter. this is the longest break i’ve had off both since i moved here. hoping to keep it up for a while. i still smoke pot but when this weed cartridge runs out i’m not buying another one.