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 paranoid nature was recreated by Ginsberg in America, appropriating the voice of McCarthyites to show a stupidity and ignorance to the outside world, "Them bad Russians". ... He offers them a map to the soul, by declaring that love prevails over all, and becomes almost a revolutionary of the literature world, and from the words of Ernesto Che Guevara, "a revolutionary is motivated by love and not by ...

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