Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Have any of you seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or read the book? What's your opinion on Hunter Thompson's thoughts on the death of the American dream? Does it contain a primarily liberal view? I've never seen anyone have an actual discussion about some of the great writing in the book, and I think it deserves more praise than what it's got.

Jawsome movie/book.
Given the copious amounts of drugs, liberal. Given the age it was made in...Yeah probably also liberal but not at 'it's 2016' levels.

>Have any of you seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or read the book?

Yes.

>What's your opinion on Hunter Thompson's thoughts on the death of the American dream?

He's right.

>Does it contain a primarily liberal view?

Not really. It's somewhere on the left-side of the spectrum but it would be unrecognizable to modern liberals.

Fun trivia: Hunter S. Thompson was drinking buddies with Pat Buchanan.

Snuff film making, elitist sycophant, degenerate.

I don't think it really had a political stance.

nor do I think Hunter S. Thompson cared much about politics as long as they didn't take his guns.

It was a drug fueled binge story. It deserves praise, but I wouldn't try to project a political stance onto it.

Hunter S. Thompson is Sup Forums incarnate before Sup Forums became a den of disgusting party-pickers.
I voted Trump in because he made everyone I hated angry, but I am not a fucking republican.

I believe everyone should be free to do what they want. They should be free to own any weapon and free to abort any baby. People should be able to go across any border of our country so long as they are legally here, they should be free to lose all their money making idiot choices in our economy, free to pick whatever fuck religion they care to follow, and free to lose all their freedom if they decide to break our laws.

>nor do I think Hunter S. Thompson cared much about politics

So his books about actually being on the campaign trail were just half arsed phone ins?

You can like the show of politics without being a partisan.

>sycophant
My English teacher would have referred to that as a "ten dollar word". Who was Thompson brown nosing to? Also, elitist seems a little far fetched.

This.
Campaign Trail was a commentary on the theatrics that general elections had become and how it affected both the politicians and the constituents. It played into his campaign for sheriff where he was very outlandish and put on such a spectacle, it was putting his own theory to work.

His book about the 72 campaign, the way he viewed Nixon winning was a lot like liberals today's reaction to Trump. He thought there was this amazing thing going on (hippies I guess, the McGovern campaign) that just got beaten down by the evil dumb normals. He doesn't get too opinionated about it in the book, because he was trying to be a journalist and actually be objective, but that seems to have been his opinion from when I read it.

>Hunter S. Thompson was drinking buddies with Pat Buchanan
For real? That's pretty cool.

read the book, very engaging writer.

>before Sup Forums became a den of disgusting party-pickers
Don't worry, now that Trump has won all these bandwagoning redditfags will slowly go away... surely.

Sycophant is shorter than "brown noser" both to pronounce and write.


Haha...

I think my favorite part about Thompson's writing is how he just fucks with people. my favorite example is in FaLiLV when he and Acosta are talking to the guy in the casino bar after they leave the national DA conference. They just keep telling him awful shit and making him afraid, just to do it. This sounds pretty far fetched, but mabye the failure of the 60's counterculture movement that he was so invested in just destroyed him, and made him a completely insane sociopath. Mabye that's why instead of doing what a normal person would do in a decision, he did the stupidest shit imaginable. Obviously, that would be the character Thompson created for himself, because all of the evidence I just talked about didn't happen in real life, but still, I think it would explain a lot about Thompson's choices in the book

Antiwhite cuck

He made snuff movies for the rich for cash.

Find me a better example of the word sycophant, maybe I should've said enabler.

Hunter invented the red pill. He was killed for it.

have read entire works, coupled with his private/social life he really seemed to be playing both sides of the proverbial fence, alot of his writing perceived as anti establishment but at the same time he was pretty well connected in elite/fame circles, attended bohemian grove, managed brothels and porn production mid life, went full anti establishment after bush

No he didn't. That story was not only disproven, it was spread by a real degenerate lefty scumbag who never even met Thompson in person.

The man glorified substance abuse. He encouraged many to go down this road, whether he intended to or not.

he literally ran for political office you fucking idiot

>seen
READ A BOOK NIGGER

>READ A BOOK NIGGER
>can't read 10 more words where I talk about the book or my other post that explicitly mentions the book

pick one faggot (P.S. book 10/10 movie 7/10)

HST would have been a Bernie supporter

I don't think so. He seemed like he was very adamant that people should work for what they want, or at least care about it, what with all that stuff about "true grit". Also, He definitely did not seem like a socialist.