The art of invention became apparent and abundant once official documents called patents guaranteed secure financial privileges to inventors. ... Social standards, although not completely perfect, united society, hence the idea of America as a giant melting pot. ...
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. ... Ginsberg takes a political stance against this act of self-harm, protesting against the Eisenhower Regime of a narrow conformist era where happiness is a breakfast of waffles and maple syrup, around a table with a wipe-clean cloth in yellow checks, a mom and dad and two point four perfect children, and 2 cars on the driveway. ...
American culture has not only helped create the anorexic young woman whose eating disorders are tied to a low sense of self-esteem--approximately 90 percent of sufferers are female; various polls have revealed that young women see themselves as "too fat" while in fact they are often below standard norms for body size[40]--but fashion has served up the newest ideal of "heroin chic": a fashion industry "look" that overlaps with "high art." ... Is it coincidence, one might ask, that the images of fashion and advertising bear a striking resemblance to the men who populate the "high art" of Mapplet...
