Hunter S. Thompson Tried to Warn Us...
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The censoring is due to the fact RUclips are consistently combing through everything I make looking for issues, every video as of recent has received a manual review despite clearly following guidelines, it's why I am forced to censor anything they might find as controversial. I will find a way to make the censors more seamless in future, realistically I saw the gaps as servicable as opposed to a jarring bleep sound constantly, but I see why it might cut up the flow of the video. When RUclips find issues it doesn't just affect income, it vastly affects the performance of the channel, and even ability to release content on time as some manual reviews take weeks.
RUclips blows I hope a new platform comes along. Great video though, cheers.
why i dont even try or care to upload music. ill just get copyright strikes, wrongfully. no point, ill never have a channel make money.🍻
It’s worth playing safe so that you can still keep making money from your work on this platform! We all appreciate the effort you make for these videos.
Also, this was an excellent topic was very happy to see you had uploaded a video on Hunter s Thomson!
RUclipssuckonmybigfathairycockandballscuntsarseandtitties
move to a Patrion-subscriber income source, many other more controversial RUclipsrs have had luck with that...
Censoring the word “drug” is the dystopian shit that Hunter hated
Uumm the newspeak dictionary of RUclips says the proper word is “Gurd”.
“Hey kids, wanna do some good guuuuurrrrddss??”
Self censorship. youtube allows every single word he censored.
You commented on the same thing! This content creator needs to grow up or at least let someone other than his Sunday school teacher edit and censor the videos.
Yes very annoying.
Hunters life is celebrated in his hometown, Louisville ky. Is completely accidental that i also live in Louisville. And coincidence that his neighborhood is called 'the highlands'. You can make this stuff up, but is much more satisfying when it happens organically 🥴
19:48 "jokes on you i was trying to be stupid" LOL that's literally what hunter did, he's that meme. Hunter is to journalism to what the wwf is to sports.
That was an amazing video man 👏
The extent RUclips is going to censor stories to death has me extremely close to a big FU
One of my favourite stories about Hunter relates back to his campaign for Sheriff, his opponent was a hardcore ex military officer who had more than a little disdain for those within the counterculture. Hunter knew this and so he shaved his head with a razor effectively becoming as bald as a cue ball, all so he could refer to his opponent as a “long-haired hippy”
Hunter was quite a formidable troll
Great story I’ve always loved that one too
ahem **"long-haired opponent"
i hate myself
So he invented both trolling and fake news and from the sound of it he actually did both of those things first? That's pretty neat actually!
@@DeathBYDesign666: He didn’t invent trolling but he did take it to another level.
casual face reveal. goat behavior
Brooooooo 🥞🥞🥞🥞
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Yeah he kinda look like that guy that was into Danny fantom RUclips guy.
Hardcore RUclips Crossover
he’s shown his face on instagram before
Man, thank you for giving a genuine look at who Thompson was and not just perpetuating the caricature.
I'd like to thank him as well. I think his story is a little sad. So much potential wasted. I can't help but think of some of Zappa's quotes on the issues of drugs.
Living now in Colorado in a time of legalized cannabis dispensaries, and legal psychedelic therapy, and not too far from the Woody Creek Tavern, I don't think this vlogger understands what where "caricature" begins and gonzo journalism ends. I know you both mean to be complimentary, but discussing it in terms of "caricature", indeed the very persona that Hunter himself created for himself!, means you don't "get" him. The serious journalism INCLUDES the outrageous exaggerations. Please read his work again!
I think the caricature is important as it shows how some of his interests will change a person for good or worse
@@squirlmy , thank god we have your statements to take at face value.
09:02 What kind of song and artist is that? Name?
They’re demonetizing drug names? What am I, a child? What am I even paying for.
Well, yeah cause we hear Cocaine and know it's bad, but if we hear Angel Dust on the other hand suddenly it becomes physically irresistible and you become addicted to the substance even without coming into contact. Or whatever RUclips tops think 😛
It’s nuts u can’t even say someone got killed u have to say ‘unalived’ as if that’s any different, reminds me of George carlins bit about how words get progressively more mechanical n detached from their actual reality (like shell shock to ptsd to operational fatigue sounds like a fkin computer problem 😂😂)
THIS. I have been paying for premium for a couple years, but with the insane decisions these out of touch people at YT Headquarters makes, and mine and others comments frequently being randomly deleted with no explanation, I have been REALLY hating this platform and wishing there was another with great user experience (Odysee and Rumble are crap on mobile for instance). I am only still here because I legit like a lot of creators, i despise ads, and I like to use certain videos to fall asleep to.
@@TheFos88 same, that’s the problem with monopolies, but half the voting populace doesn’t seem to understand that giving all the market power to a single entity, and allowing our government to establish a partnership with them results in consumers getting screwed. YT has become boring, tepid, full of desperate influencers crafting content to YT’s censorship standards, so they can make money, resulting in an utter lack of originality and creativity. It’s the opposite of what we all signed up for, and what Google promised. Even the name *You*Tube falsely advertises individuality. It should be changed to “UniTube” or “CorpoTube” or “1984Tube.”
@@BasicBobby I agree.
its scary how nothing changes
Nothing ever happens
War never changes
“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”
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I find it utmost comforting - another reason to keep lectures and experiences of people you've never known or seen.
And the fact that everywhere people are pretty similar - be it far East, west, Europe or Africa -; just minding their own business, be it vile or not. It makes your home even more comfortable to reside in - and you know it.
As an old head, I feel proud of and happy for you. You are going to make it young man. Keep going, believe in yourself. You are going to make it.
As someone who is very empathic and can read people very well, the lizard person scene in Fear and Loathing is very relatable.
I have always considered that scene to be one of an actual view into those folks` psychology. LSD can do amazing things.
@@stevekern7235 it's not that hardcore visual vise, but it does feel like that
And to think that scene was made before we found out lizards run the world.😮
@@debabade1591It depends on how heroic of a dose you take
Lizard person are you talking elite people or the guy in Godzilla suit there are whistle blowers on that guy that got morphed in suit it's true it's on unknowingly channel he's hybrid taking pill and stuff in suit did it I think black goo and radiation mixed
The first I read fear and loathing, it was a fun drug fueled romp, that made me become a Raoul duke kinda figure in high school, when I read it again a year or two later, I understood the warning that the American dream was already dead, and the hippie culture that once fueled the change that I wanted to see had burnt itself out on drugs and looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, and since then I have spread that message as much as I can
The original message of the Hippies, that of Peace, Love and the warning that corporations were going to take over the world, was co-opted by those same corporations. 🤕
@@stevekern7235& those same hippies became part of the system they rallied against & despised. Drained it for all it was worth & left a rotting corpse for all that followed to deal with.
@@stevekern7235 and the spectacle will go on without us
Coolea looks like Emo Pyrocynical. Love it
THAT'S SO ACCURATE
let's cyberbully him too :D
Don't ever say that again
better looking too
Not enough chins
Coolea looks like if John Krasinski was big fan of Deftones.
Lmao
😂😂😂 he's super cool tho
I don’t think there’s anything tragic about Hunter. Guy lived through crazy times, on his terms, had a hell of a time doing it, and his writing will live on forever.
“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and later. But the edge is still out there.”
His story, one of his last, about the Supreme Court Judge was prophetic.
He had inside information on a lot of stuff. Exaggeration (gonzo) was his way of not getting disappeared while conveying information.
In 1977 a friend taught me how to read Thompson. When you read something incredibly outrageous about a powerful person, just dial it back down to "what if this is true to any degree?"
Surprising Hunter was not unalived much sooner.
Hard to listen to because of the censoring.
Just awful
have Mei Ling decode it
I like to imagine the ghost of Hunter materializing in the office of the CEO of RUclips and throwing their office phone at them like... ruclips.net/video/5Lo-spQdG3o/видео.htmlsi=Fn3foilxfBs27cG_&t=124
Damn, maybe support the patreon and you’ll get the uncensored version. And you’ll get the badass shirt for your support of curse words
"We can't stop here, this is bat country"
"Did you see what God just did to us, maaaaan...."
"Nettles on my saddle and a badge on my vest"
@@radagast7200 God didn't do that - you did! You're a fucking narcotics agent, I knew it!!!
This Is bat country, it's All become bat country
Fear And Loathing is the only book I’ve ever read that made me feel intoxicated while I was indeed sober at the time. Incredibly talented writer
Rum diary is pretty good too
I've got to read it now. I've just seen the film
I remember growing up and idolizing HST, but now that I'm older...all the stuff about Raoul Duke and the drugs is kind of depressing. It's like he was locked into trying to be "cool" for the rest of his adult life. No doubt he would have done a lot more wonderful work if he wasn't that addicted to drugs. Who wouldn't have wanted to read that boxing story?
One of his shorter articles about ali was brilliant, really insightful.
i don’t think you can separate his work from his use of drugs.
his writing wouldn’t be recognisable without the drugs.
it’s the self-destruction that depresses me - the guns, violence, performative erratic craziness.
if he could have dropped acid, gone on speed benders etc without the violent madness - a controlled chaos - he might have lived longer, but probably not burned as bright.
he’s been embraced by elements of the trumpist right, which i suspect would have enraged him.
He burned so bright without drug abuse that he’d “made it” to fame by himself without their influence, so I think it’s a false and dangerous narrative to paint drugs as something you continuously require to be a great person or “access” your greatness. That’s pure addict speak. They can kickstart someone temporarily in certain circumstances but they only ever “unlock” what you have always been capable of on your own.
@@electricfishfan "so I think it’s a false and dangerous narrative to paint drugs as something you continuously require to be a great person or “access” your greatness. That’s pure addict speak" no idea who you're talking to
While I agree for the most part. I kinda disagree with the need to "feel cool", I speak for myself, but i believe it was of a "stare into the abyss" situation. You become seduced by the darkness and that shit swallows you up if you try to chase it.
My Dad was beaten and arrested 3 times after he was walking home from the Chicago Democratic Convention of 68, where he had been working. He passed away in 2017 but he had the craziest stories from that night! He then joined the Marines and got sent to Vietnam. My poor Dad, he did not have it easy!
I own every book Thompson ever wrote, there's nothing like him and his gonzo journalism!❤
ngl i thought this was gonna be some incel video, but i was pleasantly surprised that it was a video by the guy who taught me what sludge metal was.
INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL can i have seeeeks now ma'am?
Incels don't think society is doomed, they envy people who participate in this doomed society.
What is an incel video
@@UncAussie I’ll try to explain this best I can. An incel video is any video “essay” that has the person complaining about personal flaws and poor lifestyle choices that said individual has under the thin guise that it is a societal problem instead of a individual problem.
The videos mostly consist with the viewer rambling about porn addiction, para social relationships with fictional people, not understanding how sub-cultures function and other meaningless nitpicks that the world as a whole could brush aside. I can assure you that they are rambling about nothing if these topics do sound interesting to you.
Almost every time, they’ll have extremely clickbait/over-edited thumbnails that either meant to be shocking or enticing and use buzz phrases like “Society is doomed” or “The truth about *insert thing here*”
@@007megaoof never knew that man, thanks for informing me. It sounds like brainwashing material the way you put it almost, kind of feels insidious !
" i admire the shape of your skull"😂
I know
Man, I imagine that Mr. Thompson would be very disappointed with the current incarnation of Rolling Store.
it still exists?
@@danacoleman4007 Well there's a magazine with the same name, with a similar logo, that is read by much of the same people and claims to be the same magazine. But, no.
Coolea please do video on femboys I love your vids
Eat some meat and do manual work bro
go outside
@Shimlarian I eat chicken and fish everyday and work as a kitchen porter which is pretty manual work imo 😃
@@Mortrexablemost my hobbies and sports are outside. i don't play video games or have a TV at my house so at home I just watch yt on my phone. Its quite fun being outside actually 😁
@@StitchTheFemboy I said meat, not poultry or fish
Dude.. watch almost every one of Ur videos and i was reading fear and loathing again and showing the movie to a few mates, and then BOOM you make a video of it. We are aligned good sir
Oscar Zeta Acosta deserves a video of his own. This was wonderful, Coolea! I should give Fear and Loathing another read and finish Rum Diaries
Rum Diary is a great book. Do finish it if you find the time. And Fear and Loathing is simply amazing. Awesome books ❤
The Great Shark Hunt doesn't get the love it deserves. It is splattered all over the place with his best writing, so many tributaries flowing into his most famous F&LiLV river.
The good doctor would have definitely hated the level of censorship in this age. Even words that aren't even close to being vulgar are censored now (strictly because they're related to unpleasant subjects), which is obviously just a way of running away from/burying the head in the sand to just try to ignore reality, thinking that pretending these things don't exist would just make them cease to exist.
oh hush, you're just jealous Hunter got to publish books without bleeping out the N word and you can't.
I don't really understand youtube's M.O here. You can watch videos of people ingesting class A drugs and documenting the effects, yet in informational videos like they they will censor the word drugs as if the word itself can hurt us.
Bleeping out the n word? What does that even mean?
@@Blackgriffonphoenixg how did you reach such an intellectually challenged conclusion? Did you just not watch the heavily censored video and went straight to the comments?
"For every moment
of triumph,
for every instance
of beauty,
many souls
must be
trampled."
HUNTER S.THOMPSON
so dumb
@@danacoleman4007 Beyond One's Intellect...
@@childishpropaganda 😂😂😂
@@danacoleman4007 A lonely troll clutching at straws?
5:26 This is horribly inaccurate, the next mistake you made is Hunter S Thompson was never an official member of the Hells Angels, you are incorrect. He was "Embedded" to the hells angels. I have to stop watching this now. I cannot suffer more inaccuracies...
I wonder what he would think of this self-censorship that’s taken hold…
Man, I wish you'd stuck with your adorable little goblin avatar. Don't get me wrong - you're a handsome devil - but the camera takes me out of it after all this time with the goblin lol
Still plenty of goblin, I will never reduce goblin usage.
@@coolea 😄
I met Hunter in 2000. I won't say where or how because of who reads RUclips comments. I'll just say he was a complete ahole, but I still loved talking to him.
Who reads RUclips comments?? The CIA?? The Mothers Against Drunk Driving?? The Knights Who Say Nee??
I know you mentioned Thompson's stance against DV, you failed to mention his culpability in knocking Sandy around before they were divorced.
Have you ever considered doing a video on glam rock?
"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 and the world. Whatever it meant.…
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda.… 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."
Hunter Thompson was a burned out druggy and drunk who people take way to seriously. I got some respect for the guy being anti-authority but he was too Libertarian at times and paranoid. Dude was a nut case, an interesting one, but a nutcase is still a nutcase, and honestly why people seem to idolize him so much is something I find confusing and worrying. Seriously I just went back to Fear and loathing again and I find it more funny then thought provoking, Hunter and Acosta are just adult Beavis and Butthead, and when everyone around you is a sheep, neurodivergent people seem genius by comparison.
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Excellent take on Thompson dude. I've long been frustrated by the way his earlier journalism always gets overlooked and how his talent as a writer got so derailed by the drink and drugs and cartoon persona. After the publication of "The Great Shark Hunt" (which if I remember featured an intro in which Thompson was already contemplating death) there was never any more than occasional sparks of brilliance from his work. It always broke my heart the way he fell off. It's decades since I've read them, but I recall being really taken by the first volume of his letters ("The Proud Highway") - from what I remember of the second, they were already just repetitive and frustrating complaints about money and updates on a book we know he never got round to actually writing. The first volume was brilliant though. I should probably pick it up again to see how they hold up now I'm no longer an impressionable teenager though. 😛
Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there....
I don’t agree about how he’s not remembered for being a great journalist but his proclivities. Maybe where you’re at.
Real Coolea fans know this isn't his face reveal
The heavily muted segments needed safe/filler terminology. It was extremely annoying hearing you randomly mute the start, middle, or end of a word.
Tbh Hunter S Thompson is like Diogenes people love him more then they know him.
Quite a fan of him and not just because of the Depp films but the man view on life aged like wine
I hate Joe Rogan more and more with every single passing day.
Day 7 of asking for a ignorant guide to shock rock pls 🙏
Great fucking video! Never expected that I needed a Coolea video on Hunter S Thomson but I guess I did!!
I went into this thinking it would be some disastrous Moon like, hired bullshit account of his life yet you actually did a good job with this as an Avid fan of Thompson myself who has both Film Adaptations (Rum diaries is not real) a Gonzo Fist badge, a Model of Tape Recorder he once owned and 3 of his books this is actually pretty good, also fun fact Thompson nearly drowned Bill Murray on the set of Where The Buffalo Roam.
People don’t like being called out for being piles of shit.lol Hunter was a legend.
Are you trying to take the piss outta moon? Or are you being legit lol
The censoring of "dangerous" words is an American tradition that I despice. The constant muting of any remotely provoking words like dr****s makes this video almost unwatchable. It is quite ironic too that it is done in a video about Hunter S. Thompsson. Too bad, interesting video otherwise.
Mate you look like evey dude i vibe with at emo/posthardcore concerts
This is what happens when counterculture because just culture.
@@greyfells2829 what
He didn't try to warn us. He took advantage of cultural zeitgeist to live a libertine, largely responsibility free life. Amusing in an infantile way. The man was at times highly abusive in his personal life. Nothing to celebrate.
I grew up in louisville KY. My grandpa was in high school at the same time as HST. Grandpa went to St. X and hunter went to Atherton if I remember correctly. Louisville still has tons of odes to HST and gonzo!
fire face reveal 🗣🔥
He actually showed his face in the previous video☝️🤓
@@Arthur-ui2hh WAIT HE DID i didn't watch it quite yet
I keep seeing videos with titles like this being recommended to me... What's Next? JOE MAMA tried to warn us?!
... please stop it with these. . . .
A standard clickbait headline/title with no payoff. Nothing at all about what Hunter was warning about and how it's relevant to today, except a line or two at the end of a recap of his life that offers nothing new to anyone even casually familiar with HST and his work. If you're looking for any sort of insight, skip this video and go read a chapter or two of The Great Shark Hunt. This is just a waste of time recycling widely known information.
HST? The guy was a trainwreck. His writing was indeed entertaining. The film sucked. He never called out the two- party system and in fact was a part of it (the jet set hedonistic faction of the elites).
You lose me with that self censoring man
You want him to work for free to make these videos? Go blow a cactus
He sounds like a fruit why would it surprise you?
This video just left me with the impression that Thompson was just a hack, as well as both the culture and the counter culture being fake.
The reason history always repeats, or at the very least rhymes as Mark Twain put it, can be broken down into this: trauma (of any type and all types), fear (of anything and everything possible) and addiction (psychological, emotional, paradigmal or any other type). The more a society can push these, it dumbs down and polarizes people. They become more extreme and absolute, and less rational. Making them extremely easy to manipulate and pit against each other. I forgot who originally said it, but way back in history someone said something to the effect of: a well informed public is more dangerous than a standing army. In other words, the manipulators in power are only in power as a result of manipulation, and they do not want to lose power. This condition far worsened post-WWII, with the magical thinking that unicorns had cured tyranny and we're all immune to it now and it could never happen again, and especially it could never "happen here". So this turned people into complacent consumers seeking increasing amounts of instant gratification (which has been cranked up to 11 with modern technology today) and addicted to defending their current world view, even if they hate their own view and other views opposing it are actually better. The mind does not seek truth, it seeks sameness. At least, a mind in a traumatized state does this. And the longer someone's mind is trapped in that prison, the harder it becomes to get them out of it. Most people self destruct in some way, shape or form. We've simply normalized it and pretend its some natural thing that happens on its own, instead of identifying what we do to ourselves as being self abuse.
Yeah sure he did buddy. . . he was part of their secret society bs lol.
given your coverage of hippie culture, be sure to read Dave McGowan's Laurel Canyon
Too weird to live, too rare to die
The first time I traveled to Colorado after the state's legalization of Marijuana, we ended up staying in a Holiday Inn that was, I shit you not, holding a cop convention of some sort (we asked). We drove in to park, and the lot was FULL of police vehicles of every kind. We just wanted a good time and new experience and to learn a few things, and we walk into what any outsider could agree was an absolute mind fuck. Fear and Loathing was the absolute first thing that came to mind. Like, ok cool, I have this brown bag of totally legal things we can bring upto our room, buuuut... this is... SO BIZZARE.
Hunter S Thompson claimed to have created snuff films on two different occasions. But maybe he was just being irony poisoned.
Great video and respect that you slowed the pace to provide a detailed and thorough quick documentary.
Turned off less than half way through because of the annoying censorship.
Grandmas are reading queen's biography, completely lost in it... And we're here, watching biography of journalist. Both sides are asking themselves - what's compelling in that?
Yet real life is writing the most mindblowing and intresting stories, that's one thing certain!
Never been more glad to find such a gem of a channel.
Dude, the self censoring in this video made me soooo fucking depressed I went to bed.
Love me some HST... too weird to live, too rare to die
Why are words censored? Is this the society we live in where you can't even use fucking words and language properly as to not offend ... Who? Thumbs down, I can't watch this.
It's not about offending anybody. It's about money. Advertisers don't want to advertise their products on videos that mention drugs, sex, or anything else deemed unsavory and I can't blame them. If I owned Pepsi I wouldn't want a Pepsi ad to show in front of a video about drug abuse.
Gonzo journalism led to the creation of its complete opposite, embedded journalism, the corporate appearance of gonzo
I've used HST as a litmus test for a few years. If when he is mentioned, someone says "who's that?", there's hope. If they say "oh, the drug guy" or "wait, he's a real person?" I generally make it a point to never talk to that human being again. And if they've spent as much of their life and energy learning as much about him like/as I have, then they're probably intolerable.
Usually Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas here in my country is known as the funny movie about drugs and not much else. If you mentioned HST almost no one would know him as the book never really caught on like the movie. Hell I didn't know the movie came from a book until this video
Don't think it's that serious
Npc moment
Bruh, I bet you can't even name three Hunter S. Thompson songs...
L Take, my dude...
His obit of Nixon is still one of the greatest things i have ever read.
I wish more people nowadays knew of it
Even if he was way past his prime, he is SORELY missed during these times of open decline in journalism worldwide.
Journalism has always been garbage. It just used to serve the needs of conservatives, so it wasn't criticized as much.
My wife worked with swimming pool/hot tub techs who serviced Hunter's tub once a month or something.
They would always call the Woody Creek Tavern to make sure he was there, drinking, before they ventured to enter his property.
If they did not do this, he would shoot at them, even if they had called ahead to say they were coming.
This was toward the end of his life when he was quite a lot less sane than when he wrote his good books.
I've been reading up a lot on HST lately, what a strange and pleasant coincidence
Hunter wasn't warning anyone, he was bragging. WSB tried to warn us.
Finally, someone who understands.
Burroughs knew what was up but unfortunately nobody took him seriously because of his reputation
was not expecting a longer form docu style vid from you, but I very much welcome it!!!!!
wait this aint music for people who dont bathe
“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 and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights-or very early mornings-when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . 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.” - Hunter S Thompson
Thompson was a much loved writer during my younger years, and I was saddened to hear of his death - I never heard of it until I was reading a sunday newspaper feature in a cafe in Snowdonia one morning. My non reference reading nowadays is mostly via Audible, but sadly very little of Thompson's stuff is on there.
Thompson was not just a drunk smart guy, he had a real gift at understanding the most amazing parts of the earth that are as quiet and unrecognizable as they can be massive and extradorinaiy in his words. He was a journalist in the truest sense of the word, because he wasn't scared of speaking his mind. We need a lot more cultural influence that flourishes in honesty. Thompson's honesty is our greatest reward as readers.
Most great artists are mentally ill
After that poll you posted the other day, i figured you were about to hit us with some fun culture and history. Sealed and delivered! Keep up the high quality work, good sir.
DUDE!!!! Fuck YES!!!! Needed this today! Long live Gonzo!!!!
The most baffling part about this video is how much he had to censor it.
Not a bad upload at all, good job mate! Where the buffalo roam and the great white shark hunt was my favorites. Thanks for reminding people about the search for a dream and breaking habits.
Imagine a long conversation between Hunter S. Thompson, Terence McKenna and Philip K. Dick.
It wouldn't be long one.
Thompson would get annoyed at McKenna's pseudo-intellectual nonsense VERY quickly and start calling him a 'jackass' and a 'pig fucker'. Dick strikes me as the kind of guy that just wouldn't engage well with people with obtuse/strong/outgoing personalities. He would probably just observe the other two for a moment the quickly scurry away when Thompson started abusing McKenna.
McKenna would have kept standing there analysing Thompson's aggression (instead of shutting-up/going away) and arguing that Thompson needs to attain total consciousness to find peace (or some crap) at which point Thompson would mace McKenna. Then he would chase Dick down while screaming "Where do think you're going rat-bastard son of a bitch?" And he mace Dick too because, well... mace.
You're a great writer/speaker. I enjoy all your videos but this is reeallyyyy good dude
The term 'genius' gets banded around far too often but for me, Thompson totally warrants this title. I read all of his books almost religiously back when I was at Uni in the early 90's & 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas' is still my favourite book of all time.
Ridiculous how youtube considers alcoholism as a demonitizing word. Love the video though.
Hunter S Thompson was based
Such a handsome boy
He was just another entitled loser, if he was able to foresee some aspect of the fall of society he must have seen it in the mirror.
You can't say 'drug'?
What childish bullshit.
Blame RUclips, they censor stupid words so if youtubers want to monetize the video, they have to respect the dumb rules.
Ralph Steadman's art should have been used on Thompson's 'freak power' campaign posters to get those 8 votes.
This kinda videos are way more interesting to me than nu metal or emo. Please keep it up!