/lit/ - Literature

>>18537284
Most of what you see has been categorically standardized BECAUSE of the maniacs and drunkard chads. It's not their fault, but a lot of those people during the 40s-late 60s actually started to pose serious problems to the power structure because of their cultural influence. Fuck, Thompson almost got elected as the mayor of the town he lived in.

That's not saying that these past people were so edgy and dangerous, it's just that back then, there was less of a handle on what people decided to follow, so any artist that began to emerge as a cultural force was actually something to be reckoned with, rather than someone who could just be bought off, or was already owned.