• Dkarma@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Thompson rightly concludes that the American dream is already dead by the 70s.

    If you look west you can almost see the place where the wave broke and rolled back…

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      6 months ago

      Thompson rightly concludes that the American dream is already dead by the 70s.

      Important context for that is that the novel is a famous, and relatively early meditation on the failures of the 1960s counterculture movement and the intense, if ultimately unfocused vision for a better future for the nation that was central to it.