America does not care about visionary literature or art that contradicts the image it sells to the hungry masses, but Ginsberg provides a salvation, a light in the darkest of places. ... This is his response to America: that all can be saved, and he does this by challenging America's own beliefs about the soul. ... Ginsberg sees this as a fault of America's forefathers, asking Walt Whitman what it was like 100 years ago, if America had already lost its soul. ... A materialistic paradise, sold by the media, where in fact, an entire nation becomes flawed by a designer disease. ...

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