Why have millennials failed to produce the next Hunter S. Thompson?
>>539507713Go ask /lit/
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>>539507713Because there are no outlets for alternative journalism. There was a concentrated effort in the 90s to kill small papers and magazines. Hunter got in at the right time.
>>539507713It's me, I wrote an 80,000 word pornographic novel about the future feminists push for. But, it hits too close to home, so no one would ever publish it.
he was irreverent, we're a serious generation
>>539507852journalism now is all video, people can't be arsed to read shit
>>539507934You’re the generation he warned about…
>>539507852Zuckercuck finished the job by shadow banning outgoing links (outside of Ben Shapiro, Breitbart and a few other Fellow Travelers.) Small newspapers were also retarded about not following the music industry with loading up on bastard lawfare. Google can scrape entire articles and summarize them without anyone getting a single click but if you ask for the lyrics to a song from 1960 you get stonewalled.
>>539507713This is like asking why there is no millennial Rembrandt. The demand and the medium are no longer relevant. Congratulations, you just outed yourself as a midwit.
Its andrew callaghan
More boomerslop. Do drugs and act like a jackass. WOW! The next Hemmingway!
>>539507713I've probably never read a single quote of his so he probably wasn't that great.
we had our own version. didn’t go well. https://youtu.be/pbKVLhhflEI
Why the fuck, does this thread exist?>Millennials/Hunter S. ThompsonWhat? /pol is Reddit. And everything is divisive for no fucking reason.
>>539507713We're jerks, but we're not that caliber of asshole.
>>539508044You just throw corny keywords around? I certainly hope you don’t do this in real life.Hemingway and Thompson actually got their asses kicked for true journalism.
>>539507713You mean Idubzz?
>>539508076He was a crappy reporter promoted posthumously by the jews because he was a degenerate. He would have a substack today.
>>539507713>Why have millennials failed to produce the next Hunter S. Thompson?Every written medium no longer allows free expression. No one would publish Hunter S. Thompson if he were writing now. The closest you're going to get is someone like Asmon or Pewds sperging out on jewtube.
>>539507713Man I take loads of drugs and write shit all the time, not my fault no cunt takes any notice of my efforts.
>>539507713he posts here sometimes
>>539508190>the man that brought down the Palm Beach elites with coverage of a simple divorce was a “Jewish” promotionMan, you need to sit down and let adults talk.
>>539508229Check out Rod Miller, a current journalist from Wyoming.
>>539507713Are there any millennials capable of prolonged, direct eye contact? There's your answer.
>>539507713Not for lack of trying. The ultimate reason is because journalism schools select for people that are not only liberal, but boring as well. Have you ever read an article in The Atlantic or some other liberal fluffrag that starts off with two paragraphs about how the sunlight reflected off the morning dew before the author gets into wtf the article is actually about? This is a very boring, jeopardy-watching journalist's attempt at recreating the gonzo style. What they don't realize is that Hunter S. Thompson's descriptive journalism was entertaining because he took all sorts of insane adventures, not simply because he used a bunch of adjectives.Anyone with an entertaining youtube channel, like the guy who walks around the Florida Everglades at night and catches snakes and geckos, would make a better journalist than the "journalism" majors.
>>539507713What's this guy's claim to fame again? Eating a shotgun? Journalism so boring and trite that people considered it innovative? Getting high on acid?
>>539507713Hunter Biden. 'nuff said.
>>539507867Pretty good. At least you're on the right track.I'm not even sure where my longer story drafts are at - I never bothered to check the word count - but they're getting pretty long.Is it even possible to read such long pornographic stories considering you're unlikely to finish more than a few paragraphs per day, due to losing interest after you coomed?
>>539508543This is true. Modern journalism teachers encourage their students to “write like NPR sounds” or “upload thirteen stories to instagram for extra credit”.Nobody encourages journalists to go to war or ride with outlaw motorcycle gangs. The best journalism students are 35-year old veterans and they end up covering the local fair board for a paper in the middle of of buttfuck Iowa.
>>539507852The fuck are you talking about, he wrote for places like Esquire and Sports Illustrated. If he had been an actual alternative journalist at that time, he would have already been LONG forgotten by even the 2010's. And to your other assertion, you're not entirely wrong but Counterpunch started in the early 90's IIRC and is still going.
There will never be another Hunter S. Thompson because it's completely incompatible with the world today. Maybe I'm misremembering but he talked about the changing times quite a bit in Fear and Loathing. He was aware of the fact that it was turning into a freedomless world for golem people and he hated it.
>>539508173Real journalism? Just two degenerates getting wasted and making shit up. It’s trash and only appeals to high school kids because they are so wacky and crazy!
>>539508598being a psychotic poser essentially
>>539508802And he never got paid.If you read his letters, he was begging those bastards for his due until the day he died.What was your point again?
>>539507713Because fag homo nsa fed queer dykes steal all artists info and sells it to fag hollyweird Turkish Azerbaijani Gypsy fag fake white writersAlso because America ain’t happy being commiesI read that on some website>>539507934Seriously stuck up faggy nerds that are too afraid to be actually interesting
>>539507947I just renewed my sucribtion to a paper news.Check the kind of article they produce.>>539491080They are always attacked by the jewstice tho, I hope they won't fall.
> Roger Ebert found the film disgraceful, giving it one star out of four and calling it:>a horrible mess of a movie, without shape, trajectory or purpose–a one joke movie, if it had one joke. The two characters wander witlessly past the bizarre backdrops of Las Vegas (some real, some hallucinated, all interchangeable) while zonked out of their minds. Humor depends on attitude. Beyond a certain point, you don't have an attitude, you simply inhabit a statePretty much sums up Thompson. A degenerate boomer hack.
I guess because I haven't started.
>>539508868True journalism. It was movement that Thompson termed “gonzo”. It was the act of involving yourself in the narrative to fully cover the story, not from a desk in a comfy office. It had nothing to do with being trendy, and everything to do with being an outlaw with access to power via a press badge.The outlaw cult seeks these people out, and feeds on them. Hunter couldn’t handle the endless waves of rock stars and Hollywood types cluttering up his living room every night. It was a burden.
That guy who wrote the book where 2/3 of the words were some variation of nigger was a millennial
>>539508848His writings embody a certain feel; of a teenager sitting upwind from the campfire with the gang early in the summer night, a while after sunset, with the air growing just a little chilly, slowly coming down from that high, the joint shared three-quarters of an hour ago, feeling slightly numb but content, analytical but momentarily and comfortably detached from the wild circus of the world, the festival music slowly winding down, playing in the distance.
>>539509352Not bad. The use of “of” was redundant.
>>539507713>WE WANT A SEQUELNot everything works out in life, kid
Read 'The Great Shark Hunt.' You will laugh.
>>539507713He's busy working his ass off and in a constant fog of mental fatigue. When I didn't work, I was a fucking genius. Now my brain is racked all the time, I barely get any sleep, and I'm fucking retarded.In the past very few worked anywhere near 40 hours a week, that was ludicrous. Now everybody works more than that except the ultrarich...
>>539508721Idk, it does have a plot. Basically in the future feminists push for a new sexual revolution, insisting that "sex work is real work" something they currently parrot. Of course the media and large corporations are quick to jump on the new woke thing, so they start to hire porn stars to promote their products and businesses. They pass new laws making it legal to work in the sex industry, and therefore also making it legal to hire people for sex. Then, to destigmatize sex work, they begin to push the narrative that sex work is real work just like sending emails. Thus making it legal to have any employee sending emails also be an naked office fuck toy. Most all companies get on board because it's the progressive thing to do and it saves liability on sexual harassment claims. If any woman objects to having to do office work while naked and all holes available she is chastised for being a bigot. It's about a slippery slope down to all women who want to work outside the home being forced into prostitution.I actually published it anonymously online many years ago. It's full of horribly degrading humiliating shit, women being led around gagged, naked and cuffed with leashes on their clits. The nice cute little naked college girl working at Starbucks having to keep her pussy shaved as part of her work uniform, and getting it whipped if it's not perfectly smooth. Women kept naked in cages on display at the hardware store, that sort of stuff.... And, women fucking loved it.
Thompson was a juvenile delinquent that taught himself how to write by rewriting Fitzgerald word for word to learn the 'music' of his cadence so he could develop his own style. >"And the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly.”Absolutely beautiful for a first novel. Kids these days write in soundbites to the number of words tweets and snapchats permit, that's it. Never mind bothering reading classic books for leisure. Thompson however, was a shady motherfucker. Some of the shit that he wrote about doing and partaking in, real or fake or blurred lines of reality, just don't have you walking away scot free without some sort of deep ties and connections. He knew and rolled in some pretty closed off circles, straight up the presidency of the U.S. at the time. The guy knew a lot and perhaps way too much, hence the "suicide" prior to his deeper dives into who pulled off 9/11. He also mentioned how child kidnappings in the autumn months doubled, particularly during football season. And he mentioned adrenochrome and literally spelled out to the world what the substance was damn near 40 years before it became a more common known word nowadays what with has been revealed what the higher echelons of society partake in. And for all anyone knows, he himself could have possibly dabbled or at the very least, knew the names of those that did. Its hard to separate the art from the artist sometimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHeSC_Ws5Ic
>>539509436That is good to know; it was one thing I wasn't sure about. The structure was a bit different in the beginning, more second person, with the "of". Removed it and made it more general (no "you"s), then after some contemplation put that "of" back in with reservations.
>>539509932>It's about a slippery slope down to all women who want to work outside the home being forced into prostitution.Pretty juicy. Lots of room for different attitudes. My writing is largely about characters mental state and corruption, so that's right down my alley.>the intern's impromptu presentationThat innuendo wasn't even intentional - at first.
>>539510055any good documentaries on this?
>>539507713every single magazine has been overrun with quotafoids and niggers
>>539508337Oh yeah he really brought down those palm beach elites. Especially since the jews use south Florida and Palm Beach as their base. They even control the south Florida zionist president from there. But please tell me more about HST (let me guess, he's literally you) is a hero and not some brain braindead boomer liberal.
>>539507713he was a deviant in nearly all areas. sure, he had quite a lexicon but Carlin was superior wordsmith and could do it with humor. Thompson is the author of choice for addict. His neighbors were not blessed by his residence. The crimes and criminals he was associated with were not just the sort that harms the state, such as dodging taxes. He preyed upon society and would trek right along with Jimmy Savile and have quite a few intersections. He's not 'edgy', he's infected and carried the disease.
>>539510914On what, Thompson? Nothing that is revealing than what is already known.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHeSC_Ws5Ichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRqLcD-1sEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8-rFO4P78https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlAZV_EsSSEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3QoKqEHS8shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH45SaOujK4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccyu44rsaZo&t=8shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XfuRc-yHCIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4_ZZ-f_IfUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs5tmV_zfswhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIq0IYKyThohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRzRqaMVIu8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX1r93_X7tohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laamYjSwcHIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXuIANCwfMPeople are slowly starting to wake up to what kind of cat he really was and question why despite his talent, he's revered in such a way.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iyr1vTr-TM
>>539507713They already had Mr. Beast.
>>539507713Who reads? I joke, I joke, bur seriously, who reads anymore?
>>539509162Real journalism is dead because of New Journalism and Gonzo. Go look at newspapers from the 1800s and see how different they are. They used to only write about the facts. The idea was to be as objective an eyewitness as possible and not inserting your own bias and opinions into the story. Thompson, along with Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion, and a handful of other "journalists" of that time helped to completely undo that and make it about entertainment instead. Rubes like you fell for it hook line and sinker, and it's mutated into this hideous thing that the media is today where not a single real journalist even exists. Just mouthpieces and cheerleaders
>>539507713Hunter was an iconoclast. There's never going to be another Hunter. But in answer to what I believe you're asking, there will never be another radiant literally luminary so long as Jews maintain such a suffocating stranglehold on all things lit. Hunter was not gay, not Jew and was into hot blonde chicks. He was even married to one. Hunter also spoke his mind. The Jews will simply not allow anything approaching that. If such an individual were to appear on the scene, Jews would first insist he go gay or at the very least date a black slam poet that they would use to try and control him (a live in handler). Hunter would not tolerate something like that for a minute. He would further bristle at their attempts to force him into staying on message and shilling their bullshit. Hunter would respond to this with hilarious hostility and through stubborn recalcitrance develop a sharp distaste for jews and their shenanigans. He would then either fade into obscurity or figure out some way to win. I'm not sure how resilient Hunter would be in such a struggle. I'm glad we had him while we did. But no, there will never be another luminary so long as Jews maintain such a monopoly on everything creative. Does that answer your question?
>>539507713Because he occupied a tiny niche in time when America was peak freedom. Now we all live in a somewhat comfy tyranny. You don't want to be a rebel where you wind up sleeping in the street. Hunter was able to live a very good life on being a rebel. Not a recommended career path in 2026.
>>539511389Lol
>>539511188>Carlin was superior wordsmithWrong.>>539511982>iconoclastThis and he was unique. Also was a product of his time, he rode the wave of a specific time interval — great transformation of western culture and documented some aspects of that in his inimitable manner.
>>539511982>it's the jews fault I'm a failureOh come on now
>>539509932Made me realise my stories have a plot of sorts as well.>I wasn't even aware of thatI mean I was, but it's a bit of an incidental thing that sprouted from the story vehicles. Not like a porn movie by any means, but entire sections, even chapters of meticulously researched sociopolitical fluff.>???I thought I was writing porn, but actually it's somewhat akin to what you've described, since your book also has a cultural dimension and shift in society.Curiously my story canvas is far more dark and serious, but with more of a fiction setting and (probably) more whimsical (yet less humorous) porn... chapters? Tends to go beyond a mere scene, I guess.>it's also incredibly abusiveMight be a bit of an odd combination, but I don't expect a rating other than "not suitable for any age, past, present or future, living or dead".
>>539511426Youre an idiot. They wrote a bunch of bull shit. You have any idea how much science got wrong over 200 years? How many articles were written celebrating something terrible?
>>539508190You're wrong. He was legitimately talented and supremely insightful. Drugs were certainly part of his milieu, but he took things WAY too far. I think he killed himself because he knew he killed his gift through excess. And he did. He definitely lost it at the end. I for s while refused to believe that he killed himself. But I came to accept that he definitely did. Drugs really are bad news.
>>539507713boomers
Some random thoughts on HSTIn F&LILV Oscar Zeta Acosta pulls a knife on a waitress in a midnight diner when she's alone. HST the towering moralist condemning Nixon et al, merely slunk away. It's as though if he sort of cast her off as a "burned out Jane Russell" it was OK for his spic piece of shit attorney to abuse her.HST did an interview with Mohammed Ali. The fellatio he performed on that mouthy nigger, the grovelling is pure cringe. Disgusting.HST was a hedonist and a communist at heart.
>>539507713We have Karl Ove Knausgaard
>>539508229This is true. Hunter would be barred because of who he was and what he was. The democrat party would also have no room for him at all (and he legit put Jimmy Carter in the WH. That's basically true). A gun nut straight white man from Kentucky? And not even sorry for it? Zero chance. The thing is, there would be an even greater emphasis on Hunter toeing the line...having so much penance due his privilege, he would be under intense scrutiny and pressure. His slam poet assigned girlfriend would be at all times humiliating him and giving him assignments. Hunter would shoot everyone involved after about two weeks in. He was in all ways the archetypally toxic masculine. I had so much fun reading his stuff. It was dynamic, strangely erudite, engrossing and intimately familiar. Hunter knew how to get into a good headspace to write. His prose was alive in s certain way. He embodied an attribute of the zeitgeist, and he took that role very seriously. Hunter was just as much cultural phenomenon as he was a writer.
>>539512238no, he was not unique. he told you upfront that he was a drunk since 14. his substance abuse only elevated from there. sure, in the 60's and 70's, why wouldn't you promote this shit? he did not use journalism to shine a light on something and expose it but rather promote it. that is how you end up with teh rum diary and the prostitute projects. it's fucking literally nothing new except that thin veneer that kept your from realizing freud was high as fuck on coke is removed. later in life, as he realized the time he wasted, he killed himself. this is a key point. when a person determines that it is time to check out, that person has reached a point of self-actualization vs potential. i.e. could have but was not
>>539508543Yeah, it's all insufferably prosaic and self reverential.
>>539512741HST actually participated in an interview with Bill Clinton, among 4 or 5 other reporters, when Bill was first running for president. The Little Rock LunchThe Setting: A local steakhouse where the Rolling Stone team met the future president during the 1992 pre-election campaign.The Tension: Thompson felt deeply humiliated because Clinton aggressively dismissed his probing questions and views, treating him as if he were "criminally insane".The Magazine's Stance: To Thompson's great frustration, Rolling Stone had already decided to formally endorse Clinton before the writers even arrived to conduct the interview.This is putting it mildly. He muttered one softball question and Clinton angrily snapped at him and that dangerous angry man HST just crumpled and fell silent.
>>539507713Thompson is overrated.
>>539507713There are plenty of smarty farty self indulgent idiots around
>>539508229>>539512741Personally I'd be more concerned with the question.. who the fuck would buy that guy's books?Assuming they get published, I mean.Which leads me to another question:>what media would Mr Lennial Nu-Thompson publish in exactly?Visual Novel? DDLC guy is the new HST? Maybe the Unteralterberg guy?Or will he release his chapters on Patreon instead?>inb4 he's an unironic bloggerAre there other formats? Light Novel? PowerPoint presentation?But maybe it's a book after all, except it's one women buy.
>>539512953>Thompson is overrated.He hit just at the right moment...Everything came to a peak at '71 and '72. The music did too. Hendrix band of gypses at Filmore E. Alllman Brothers Band live at the Fillmore E, Rolling Stones Exile on Main St., The Doors LA Woman album, Miles Davis Bitches Brew and Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Then *poof* it all evaporated, everybody died of heroin or motorcycle accidents and the Vietnam war ended and everyone lost interest in politics since they weren't going to get drafted and in came Disco, cocaine and straight up hedonism of the lowest order. Nobody read books nobody read anything. The triumph of the goons. Anti intellectualism was rife.
>>539512741>>539512915I think that's indicative of the fact that if you're a corporate journalist even one with your own brain there's not much you can do if your publisher doesn't have your back. In this case, Hunter's magazine has already endorsed Clinton's gangster ass, he tries to do his job and the guy pulling the strings yells at you like a dog that shit on the rug. What do you do at that point? You can tell Bill Clinton to go fuck himself, damage your career and your ability to ever get an interview with someone important again or you roll over and accept that you're a powerless cog in the machine. I think for Hunter he spent his early years attacking powerful figures that the machine actually wanted destroyed like Nixon so he thought he was free when really he was attacking exactly who they wanted him to attack. When he tried to confront the Democratic party's new chosen one the reality of who was holding his leash was thrown violently in his face.
>>539513143Well this is not 71 and 72, His style of journalism would be anathema to most millennials and zoomers.
>>539513143>Then *poof* it all evaporatedThey traded acid for cocaine and Hendrix for disco. Blame the glowies.
>>539513262He was Jann Wenner's boy. Jan Wenner is a jew. Did HST ever utter a single whispered word against them despite being given to towering fulminations and anethema's against the corrupt and evil? I've read a lot of his stuff though I've never bothered with his Rum Diaries or letters. I've never heard him utter anything on that account.He's a bargain basement Henry Miller, sort of like the Peter Coyote character in Bitter Moon.
>>539513143Gas price hikes seem to drive Americans insane.Maybe egg prices too.>or egg price increases merely herald oil crashes
>>539513318>They traded acid for cocaine and Hendrix for disco. Blame the glowies.You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. I'll blame my generation. And they're still assholes as old as they are. The adore FOX news. They adore golf.
>>539513135A modern HST would probably be doing like substack shit. Doing independent journalism trying to make a go of it on his own. Whether he'd have any success at it or not would be hard to say. Would raw writing talent cut it when you don't have the access to interesting interviews and events that HST's corpo media backing provided him? Would you actually find an audience when you don't have a publisher advertising you to the masses? Could you stay independently minded if you wanted to find an audience on your own or would you have to play the click bait party loyalty line to get a following?I don't know. In a weird way I feel people like Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald or Joe Rogan are the closest we get to a modern HST. They've got an audience, they can get good interviews, they've got publisher backing and they still have a modicum of independence when it comes to their opinions. That or they're all just controlled opposition in which case Thompson probably was too and there's never been anything that wasn't fake and gay.
>>539513525He was a pretentious character, in much the same way as Woody Guthrie and his shitbox guitar with the words "This machine kills fascists" written on it.
>>539512766>2 pbtid babblechecked (You) are a Dumb Fuck whose grandparents needed to be aborted. Back to pleddit>>539513143>He hit just at the right moment...Everything came to a peak at '71 and '72'Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72' is his masterpiece (from a series of articles) though few recognize this today.
>>539513135Those are all excellent points. And I agree with every one of them. It's why attempting to be a writer is a folly these days. It's a completely different era. In s certain sense, there's no longer any such thing as a "writer". I think the next phase of whatever that's always been, a writer/bard/poet, will assume a new form at some point. Probably sometime soon.
>>539513438>He never mentioned the jews.Hunter was still a boomer. His preconceptions of corruption were still boomer style preconceptions of corruption. Rich Wasps sitting around a boardroom smoking cigars, and drinking old scotch while Richard Nixon and the president of Raytheon sit ominously in a dimly lit corner of the room. The boomers were so dominated by the WWII propaganda that they were never able to perceive the jews as anything other than rebellious outsiders trying to break their way into whitey's game.That said, how many times can you notice their presence and still think it a coincidence? I'd have to imagine he knew; but he was still a corporate journalist a man who wanted to keep his job and nothing gets you tanked faster than naming the jew. I'd suspect the best he could do was talk about Israel in less than glowing terms.
Gonzo journalism just means that the writer is the star of the show. HST basically became famous for his personal life and character and no one really cared about his books. He got invited to college campuses just to talk about himself, no one cared anything about his writing.
He was a shit journalist that got by on punk rock vibes and his articles still sold pepsi products. id say if anything his style is now standard format for anons writing. otherwise every news sources loves adding their twinge of bias that hunter was wont to do.
>>539513262This is exactly the case. I never once made the point that Hunter was fearless. I don't believe he was. Hunter definitely had a craven streak. And I think he understood what kind of backers Clinton had. I've mainly just stressed that Hunter was a very enjoyable and stimulating read. I don't believe him to be a sage of any kind and he was a deeply flawed individual. But he really could write. And that's an important gift.
>>539507713He was a personality first. His writing was shit. He was a lolcow.
>>539513673Similar character; Ken Kesey. He was a big deal to the liberals at that time. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion.The movie was a huge deal at the time. The Jack Nicholson character was based on Neal Cassidy. Neal was a speed freak and a wild man. Lots of West Coast dudes have followed his example to hipsterdom. But then he said "nigger" and Randall Mcmurty fights the evil black orderlies in the mental hospital. Wiped from the American consciousness as a result, both of them.
>>539513525Suddenly I'm real glad Alexei Navalny died.Even more glad than before, I mean.>pretend grassroots whistleblower tyrant slaying champion of liberty CIA glownigger plant>pushed as the new HSTY I K E SIKESOverall, with how fractured everything is today, there really may be nothing approaching a direct analogue; at best heirs within a certain narrow scope or particular "medium" (in the absolutely widest possible sense).
>>539513670I wouldn't say HST was anywhere near as full of shit as Guthrie. If nothing else he was a lot more intelligent than Guthrie. I do think Hunter enjoyed the attention he got, the Raoul Duke character he played; but he felt the need to play that character. That pretense was the way he associated with the world, with the public, he could be honest by playing a part and making thrusts at the truth; but he couldn't be honest by just being himself, by being truly serious and just saying what he believed without any theatrics.I see the act; but sometimes a play lets you get at the truth. Indeed his eccentric and unserious nature probably allowed him to hang out on the periphery of the elites as a novelty in a way that a serious man couldn't.
>>539514039>Alexei NavalnyUghh Christ. My boomer aunt bought me a biography of that glow nigger for Christmas last year. Its sitting in the corner of the room collecting dust. When I reacted to it by suggesting that he was probably associated to the CIA and that he had naughty racist opinions that she'd never tolerate from someone in the United States she got pretty pissy.
>>539514079There was his close relationship with the Mitchell Brothers and their porn film/strip club O'Farrell Theater>>The Mitchells were popular on the fringes of San Francisco's diverse society. Their friends included a who's-who of pornography plus San Francisco personalities and celebrities from outside the city: Warren Hinckle, Herb Gold, Aerosmith, Black Panther Huey "Doc" Newton, and Jack Palladino. Palladino would come to be considered the world's most expensive private investigator. The late journalist Hunter S. Thompson was a close friend of the brothers, and frequently visited the O'Farrell Theatre. In 1988, the Mitchells made a 30-minute documentary about him, Hunter S. Thompson: The Crazy Never Die.[13]>>Thompson claimed in his 2003 book Kingdom of Fear that he had worked for a while in 1985 as night manager at the club, an assertion repeated by some news articles.[14] Thompson also claimed that the Mitchell brothers smuggled guns to the IRA.[15]I'm not sure what credence I'd put on the claims HST and the Mitchells were involved in underage porn and even snuff films.
>>539514032concur that they had similar career arcs as writers and among the counterculture of the time.It was a discrete and specific time window in the U.S./Europe when studied closely. Approximately 1962—1973 with other sub-divisions and -eras within that interval.Kesey was a novelist, HST couldn't be one of those so he applied his writing talent to invent a new form of journalism.
>>539514032>The Jack Nicholson character was based on Neal Cassidy. Neal was a speed freak and a wild man. Lots of West Coast dudes have followed his example to hipsterdom.Neal Cassidy was just the uneducated hanger on to the beat generation of Ginsberg/Boroughs/Kerouac all of whom were the real first true writers of gonzo journalism
>>539507713He was a cuck who wrote about anti white themes back in the fucking 70s, a real visionary. Peak pre-boomer libertarian degenerate who just wants muh freedom and down with boring square western civilization n sheetComplete schizo druggie hack who has this image and facade of coolness but is a Reddit tier cuck in the end. He would 1000% be kneeling during BLM and supporting trannies if around today
>>539507713We had andrew anglin but the kews professionally destroyed him.Everyone hates the jews now though
>>539514345https://youtu.be/pacbkF1KWCIKen Kesey speech where he rants about his contempt for Tom Wolfe and his high regard for HST plus engaging in some cringy posturing in a red beret and playing the rich communist. He inherited a creamery in Oregon that must have been worth at least $10 million.
>>539507867You know you can self-publish that right. Get that shit on Amazon for $12.99
>>539514543>creameryGrateful Dead played a storied concert there 08/27/1972>$10Midk if it was valued that when he got it (perhaps today it might ? be)>KeseyHere's a biographical documentary, 59 minshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJqZBoldGJI
>>539507713>>I miss my big, beautiful tits
>>539514769I remember when the homeless crisis started to explode under Reagan in the 80's as insane asylums started to be closed and madmen thrown out into the streets Kesey was asked about it all, and he replied "they just all need to smoke some good weed". When I read about this crew esp Neal Cassady I'm always reminded of this guy...and where all that hipster shit lead us...
>>539508702fair point
>>539510055>And he mentioned adrenochrome and literally spelled out to the world what the substance was damn near 40 years before it became a more common known word nowadaysHe was very clear about the fact that it was pure fiction that he invented while trying to think of some absurd over the time drug for his fictional characters to consume. It was always made up nonsense, blatantly so, and seeing you retards turn it into a conspiracy theory is legitimately depressing.Thompson wrote a lot of fiction but when he was writing as an investigative journalist he was very serious and if he was trying to reveal the retarded shit you're referring to then he would have been serious and straightforward about it, not hidden it away in a fictional comedy novel.
>>539507713Not enough hard drug use.
Ivy Wolk is the gen z wordsmith, check out some videos from her on Instagram or tiktok
>>539507713they didn't, their version is about trying every bbc
>>539507713It's me. I'm the one
what was so great about this boomer again? that he did drugs? literally a bad influence on kids
>>539515983>>These are awkward questions in some circles, and the answers can be disturbing. Why do the finest flowers of the American Dream so often turn up in asylums, divorce courts, and other gray hallways of the living doomed? What is it about being born free and rich beyond worry that makes people crazy?Well he does come up with shit like this from time to time despite all his all too manifest flaws...
It would have been Apedre Anglin, had he not discredited himself with MIGA.
>>539515983>what was so great about this boomer again?He was an interesting writer.
