[forkinsocket]

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[Borges]

And Kerouac and Nabokov were staunch anti-communists.

[STONEWALLS]

yeah I remember the “intellectuals” of ‘58 alright....abstract “painters” that couldn’t draw....blank verse “poets” that couldn’t rhyme....cool jazz “musicians” that couldn’t keep time....lotta frauds called themselves “artists” back then.

[Jeff Chandler]

I’ll never forget 1958. That was the year I learned to use the toilet.

[madconservative]

Link to Orwell's disillusionment with the western intelligentsia of the 50s.

http://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/efp_go

He was sickened by how they turned a blind eye toward, and self-censored discourse on, Russia for the sake of their Utopian dreams. See if it reminds you of anyone in our day.