Thanks for the insight. It is comforting to know that the spiritual bankruptcy of this age did not spring naturally from the American experience, but had deliberate fabricators who had to oppose the American experience in order to gestate their horrid creation. The now almost universal acclaim heaped on artistic charlatans and intellectually bankrupt degenerates is explained and put into historical context.

May Mailer sleep without rest in the eternal backwards embrace of the likes of Gilmore and Abbott. They deserve each other. Although, in the long run, their crimes are nothing compared to his.