Jim Morrison - Spencer Beeson

Recently I have been reading the book ‘No One Here Gets Out Alive’ the biography of Jim Morrison from the band the Doors. In the book Morrison has the idea that the west is the best. This is something that we have often talked about in class, the western states have a special feeling to them because of the vast open spaces. This is talked about in the required readings for our class but also in other books such as ‘No One Here Gets Out Alive’ and even ‘Into the Wild’. Morrison’s psychedelic trips to the desert and McCandless’s great journey in the west, although different, contain the same similar theme of ‘the west is the best’. Although, never being to the west myself, the idea of more open landscapes would bring something different to the table that the mountains I live in now. But likewise, the mountains can capture something that the open spaces of the west can’t. I suppose I agree with the idea that the vast spaces contain something sacred but is that the “best”? I would have to go their myself to judge that.