Far be it from me to recommend the reader drugs, alcohol, violence and dementia. But I must confess that, without that, I would be nothing. Hunter S.
Thompson
Beatnicks
After came the hippies, living in the Trinity lysergic rock, drugs and sex, were on LSD can buy, in the words of Thompson, Peace and Understanding for three dollars per dose.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , the novel on which Terry Gilliam film with Jonny Deep by Thompson and Benicio del Toro as his lawyer, is the least mystical travelogue and more drugs that I have ever read. Even more excessive than the film, this novel puts an end to a generation beatnicks founded by the North lost to hard to get spiritual answers through drugs. Permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the basic old mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody is responsible for supporting the light there at the end of the tunnel.
Thompson and his lawyer set their minds and their environments in a way of stripping the rotten fallacy of the American dream. They destroy everything the materialistic conservatism in North America has worked to transform into a monument. These are the great secularizing of American myths, both capitalist and hippie dream. We were
drug scandalously past, riding a number of flagrant crazy trying to always to the limit ... Not to demonstrate any important sociological principle, even as a conscious mockery: basically a matter of lifestyle, a sense of what was required and even the duty.
If Kerouac is a prophet of hipppies, Thompson is the antichrist of them. A skeptic who ends his days with the violence of a shot in the head.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Hunter S. Thompson, Angrama, 207 pp.
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