RIP.
He was a genius and his way with words unique. Living in another dimension, giving him the ability to see our reality without any filters.
May the mescaline supply never end.
I can’t read non-fiction. I’ll be 60 this year and I think I’ve read 3 books since I left school. I just can’t get into them. One that I read, in two days, was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
His style feels so simple to me. It reads so easily. I devoured everything he wrote in my youth and still occasionally pick up a random book and blast through it
Fear and Loathing is definitely not non-fiction
"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."
I think about that quote a lot these days.
I think about the good doctor a lot these days, I owe him my awakening from my conservative Christian upbringing and being at least somewhat prepared for this insane weirdness. But I often wonder what he would specifically advocates for in these circumstances, I have an idea, but I can’t say it
I think the same thing happened in the late 90s / early 2000s. I remember reading about how demographic shifts were pushing the country to be more ethnically diverse and more liberal, and that within a few more election cycles it would be impossible for white conservatives to maintain a stranglehold on power. There was no need to destroy the Republican party; the inexorable hand of demography would do it for us.
Then it turned out that they could just engineer the electorate to be smaller, more gerrymandered, and even more willing than before to vote against their own best interests, and they mixed in just enough straight up electoral rat fuckery, and here we are.
I had the same situation in 2012 with the push for gay rights. There I was in a podunk Kansas highschool watching half my graduating class come out. I myself had learned what pansexual meant and finally felt validated. Gay marriage was soon legal and I thought finally we’d made some sort of movement.
I guess I have the right kind of eyes to see the high mark.
He killed himself during the bush regime, I wonder how he’d feel during the current admin.
I feel we might have discovered nuclear fusion from the power of his anger.
I wonder of he would have felt compelled to take some others with him?
Only good sheriff.
At least a hundred year war would have an end date.
