This image I found online sums up NYC in the 1970's. Before you start I'm black. It was mostly Blacks on the business end of young men like him.
If he lived I imagine he'd be in or near his 60's now. I would so be interested in his oral history or if he got an education eventually his book.
This of his life. What he did then, and how he feels about it now, and what if anything he see as our future.
I think the legacy of what his generation did is behind at least part of the current deadly police culture.
This when many American cities were low intensity warfare zones.
I think it may still be too early for an objective study of that era. All of the historic economic racial cultural factors that came together for a period of American urban apocalypse.
Like the Vietnam era this story can't be honestly told till all that were involved all that lived it are gone. Then their grandchildren or great grandchildren.
They unencumbered by the distortions of the culture wars will tell the true story of that harsh time.
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This boy is ideal for a role in William Burroughs "The Wild Boys".
Let's start filming on location tomorrow!
Perfect!
This boy is perfect! We need him and at least a thousand of his friends to begin filming Burroughs "Naked Lunch" as soon as we finish "The Wild Boys".
"Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face. They open zoos, insane asylums, prisons, burst water mains with air hammers, chop the floor out of passenger plane lavatories, shoot out lighthouses, file elevator cables to one thin wire, turn sewers into the water supply, throw sharks and sting rays, electric eels and candiru into swimming pools (the candiru is a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up you prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ), in nautical costumes ram the Queen Mary full speed into New York Harbor, play chicken with passenger planes and buses, rush into hospitals in white coats carrying saws and axes and scalpels three feet long, throw paralytics out of iron lungs (mimic their suffocations flopping about on the floor and rolling their eyes up), administer injections with bicycle pumps, disconnect artificial kidneys, saw a woman in half with a two-man surgical saw, they drive herds of squealing pigs into the Ka'bah, they shit on the floor of the United Nations and wipe their ass with treaties, pacts, alliances."
-William Burroughs, "Naked Lunch"
Your last paragraph is totally false. If anything, time passing erases the truth of any event. People can't accurately recall what happened 6 months ago much less after generations! And it's getting worse, not better.
From an earlier post you made on the Vietnam war, you had a totally bizarre concept of that that event.
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