The entire thing is indicative of the failure of the hippy project to even contemplate enacting real change. You wanna change the world? Nah, take LSD instead, “don’t you know it’s gonna be alright?”.
The idea that any of these people genuinely believed they were doing anything other than assisting in the maintenance of the status quo is laughable.
Of course I’m not saying I thought rock stars represented the ideological pinnacle of the movement, but I’d claim that this sort of thought is indicative of the wider milieu.
no i will not read another Hunter S Thompson book that's not Fear and Loathing stop asking
I tried the Great Shark Hunt and I think it was about doing drugs at the kentucky derby? That was a pretty fun bit. And Steadman's book on HST but that probably doesnt count
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is great although also kind of terrifying given how little has changed
Politics never changes.
Would you say that to my face?
Yes? Well how about at gunpoint, does that change the equation?
I wrote some goddamn masterpieces.