Why Jack Kerouac Was Right About Society
- September 24, 2012
Kerouac by Tom Palumbo, circa 1956, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. [Source] Jack Kerouac once said, "...the ones for me are...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing...," [link] which to most people only cemented the notion that Kerouac himself was a self-absorbed egotist, but to me he was simply stating a fact that he was more intellectually achieved than most, and preferred to surround himself with others of equal intellectual achievement. Aside from the egotistical nature of his personality, Jack Kerouac was somebody who was able...
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