The Hunter S. Thompson Question

[draggs]

I'm just gonna leave this here.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ccyu44rsaZo

lol Hell's Angels guy is a total piece of shit joking about beating women (and the crowd eating it up lol) but Hunter is such a beta he can't do anything about it.

That was Hunter's problem, he could talk shit like a master but instead of doing something when talking shit wasn't enough, he would go do cocaine and psychedelics instead. The shit with the Hell's Angels, in The Rum Diary the girl he and his debauchery acquaintance are with gets drugged and taken off to be gang raped and Thompson's avatar character doesn't do anything. His life story in the 60s and 70s was getting into situations where he was the only or almost only man with any kind of morals around, bad shit was happening/about to happen, but he can't do anything because doing anything would've got his ass beat or killed.

People should take him for what he was, a very good writer. The hero worship is a modern twist on paganism where the Hunter S. Thompsons and George Carlins get elevated to the status of oracular priest.

 

[Pomniman]

The idea of it being hero worship in the sense you're thinking isn't accurate because the kinds of 'tards this thread is about don't gloss over the unsavory things about him so much as project themselves onto him because they identify with those unsavory things and want to be as successful/well-respected as him while doing nothing to better themselves.

 

[Bum Driller]

The idea of it being hero worship in the sense you're thinking isn't accurate because the kinds of 'tards this thread is about don't gloss over the unsavory things about him so much as project themselves onto him because they identify with those unsavory things and want to be as successful/well-respected as him while doing nothing to better themselves.

I think you misinterpret what is meant as savory and unsavory in context of Thompson. People wanting to emulate him want to emulate his "savory unsavory" moments, like being high on every psychoactive known to man but still getting the job done, but not necessarily his truly unsavory moments, like the moral dilemma situations user @draggs brought up.

 

[Pomniman]

I think you misinterpret what is meant as savory and unsavory in context of Thompson. People wanting to emulate him want to emulate his "savory unsavory" moments, like being high on every psychoactive known to man but still getting the job done, but not necessarily his truly unsavory moments, like the moral dilemma situations user @draggs brought up.

No, it's not just the drugs. They definitely identify with all of his failings. Even speds like Mersh who claim "moral consistency" are exactly the kind of fags who were in dodgy situations and never did shit other than get drunk/high and bellyache about how they're totally not as shitty as everyone else involved to their audience after the fact despite being pussies who'd never stand up for their convictions if push came to shove.

 

[Bum Driller]

No, it's not just the drugs. They definitely identify with all of his failings. Even speds like Mersh who claim "moral consistency" are exactly the kind of fags who were in dodgy situations and never did shit other than get drunk/high and bellyache about how they're totally not as shitty as everyone else involved to their audience after the fact despite being pussies who'd never stand up for their convictions if push came to shove.

If they didn't stand up for their convictions, there weren't any real convictions in the first place. People are adept at saying things they "believe" in, but quite lackluster at practicing those very same things.