... , unwilling to become just another number in a system that keeps itself alive by stealing its inhabitants individuality, by numbing the soul. Ginsberg sees this as a fault of America's forefathers, asking Walt Whitman what it was like 100 years ago, if America had already lost its soul. He looks to the past to explain the America that he knew. America was built on ... ...

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