When I was an 18 year old student, I loved the film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" with Depp playing Hunter S Thompson so much that I read the book cover to cover in one sitting. But I now that I'm older I look back at such amusement as empty and childish. Taking copious amounts of drugs and alcohol to feel free is retarded and whatever edgy allure it had as an 18 year old faded with time. But I found my Boomer dad reading my HST book the other day and he loves it.
>now that I'm older I look back at such amusement as empty and childish. Taking copious amounts of drugs and alcohol to feel free is retarded and whatever edgy allure it had as an 18 year old faded with timecongratulations, you understood the point of the book
>>221292822It's not a glorification of things, it's a window into a specific mindset, that while mostly made up or 'bottled up inside", is emblematic of the feeling some people ended up with after the failure of every hippie/reformative/party movements of the late 60s, I'm pretty sure Thompson spells it out like that in his book as wellCompensating for the insanity of the world by becoming more insane yourself>He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
>>221292968The philosophy and goals of the hippy movement were pretty vague.
>>221292973His Hell's Angel book is a lot straighter, but also carries a lot of that reasoning; it's a bit drier and grimmer, but if you liked the journalistic bits of FaLiLV you might be into it
>>221292822Very quotable and fun social commentary. You are being reductionist or did not "get it".
>>221292822He’s no William S Burroughs, that’s for sure
>>221292822You liked the idea of self-destruction at the same age they did, and learned to resent it the same age they did
>>221294191I'm so happy I read Burroughs as a teen, basically immunized me to all the propaganda Americans like to spout about the 50's being some innocent and wholesome time. They're still pretending it as all "Golly gee whiz, maybe if I'll invite Peggy Lou to a milkshake at the malt shop and take her out to the drive-in, she'll dance with me at the sock hop!" when in reality, everyone was just as degenerate as they're now and even less ashamed of it.n>>221294351I never had a phase like that. I enjoy reading about deug culture and countwr culture but even when I was young, it never felt aspirational to me. I didn't even drink until I was well in my mid 20's.
>>221294424back in the 50s, patriarchs were molestering the shit out of everyone. it got so bad they had to create a satanic panic to distract from the very mundane but equally grotesque molestering going on.
>>221294487I smell a troon doing some insane rationalizations...
>>221292822>Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a main era... The kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something, maybe not, in the long run. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant. There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
>>221292822Congrats OP you understood the point of the story. Especially when it bassicaly spells it out 2 times really.
>>221293015I also want ot recomend FAL On a Campain Trail. Pretty interesting insight into the politics of that era and very witty.
>>221295620>posts a picture of patriarchs molesting kids Goddamn you niggers are retarded.
