But it’s not just talk of abundance that makes me wary.

Jack Kerouac might have run counter to the culture in the sense that the mainstream hated him and so he hated it back some. But he was also a Patriot, a Republican, an anti-communist; he drank himself to death. No role model in that, despite the art.

In spite of the the non-dual Buddhism besides.

Nor in Alden Pyle.

Nor even Bukowski, even though he is said to have said:

“And when nobody wakes you in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”

Who among us can’t relate to that?

“Not I.”