Kill Your Idols

As the architects of existentialism die, their messy personal lives are revealed in harsher details. As they aged, the thing they called freedom became mere rebellion against noblesse oblige. Engaging in sordid affairs with much younger students who idolized, sex tourism in France's former colonial satellite states. Their protected status as elite intellectuals let one of them literally get away with murder. They and their work must be reevaluated not by what they wrote publicly but what they did privately.