I feel what Hunters work taught me is that the American dream is the pursuit. Not that it doesn't exist but rather the journey is what matters and not the destination.
So you actually drew a different conclusion than what he did himself? Also, I'd argue that that's not what the "American Dream" is sold as to the rest of the world, probably not even to the American people. The destination is why people begin that journey at all. From rags to riches. In general, I feel like saying that it's about the "journey" is often used as a decoy to keep people quiet and suppress rebellious or revolutionary tendencies; as in, "Don't worry, it's gonna get better if you just keep working! It's the journey that matters, not the destination, so it's okay that you're still poor and depressed twenty years later!" Not saying that that's what you mean at all, don't get me wrong. It's how I think the phrase has been used politically for a long time.
I don't think that's the American dream. The idea is exactly the opposite of it's implications actually cause. At best, it can be an American fever dream, to be honest. Freedom's greatest manifestation is like a short drug high, like a gunshot. It doesn't mean that life it's not worth of be living. But by your definition is better to go through a journey to avoid the american dream than to believe in it and end up like, I don't know, Werner Herzog's Stroszek
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Every now and again I come across a video that really deserves more exposure and a lot more appreciation. This is one such piece of work. Well done; a fitting homage to a legend of a man.
After reading fear and loathing, and making it through some of his other works, I have come to a conclusion. I will never think he is as cool as he thinks he is
Hunter Thompson was the embodiment of the sixties spirit. A rockstar author who owned his voice. His description of Hells Angels was so immersive that you couldn't differentiate between the author and the subject. Hope to see more videos like this about other cool forgotten figures. 🤘🤘
I'll buck the trend here and say that's a good comparison. They both created an outrageous fictional character to explore the dominant hypocrisies of their worlds. Thompson kept the boundary between his true and fictional selves a lot blurrier than Cohen did though.
Hunter didn’t like living up to the party animal/wild card image he’d created. Ultimately what led him to taking his own life. He was a just a good ol boy from Kentucky.
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Excellently edited, but it's Mostly a collection of well known stories and common cliches about HST. It's.kind of what I'd expect Chat-GPT to say about him. Was this written by AI? I ask becsuse the doc. said he was searching for the Americsn dream which is untrue. His character Raoul Duke claimed to be doing that, but only as a colourful way of documenting its death
Hey, thanks for watching.I get what you're saying. The video was meant to give a mix of well-known and some lesser-known stories about him. It's a 15 min video, so I had to choose between covering the essentials or doing a deep dive on a specific aspect. And just to clear it up, it wasn't written by AI. Reading his articles about Jimmy Carter's candidacy, you can see how much he was disappointed with American politics before Carter's election. It was a sense of lost idealism in a corrupt system, part of his broader search for the American dream-at least that's how i see it.
@@AnotherDive, cheers and thanks for the thoughtful response. I see you like big topics, perhaps a good way of handling some of these would be covering them in a brief series of shorter, more bite-sized vids - all leading to a summation. The single long deep dive can lose less involved listeners and I think AI is probably going to crush the short, all-in-one type doc. Just my additional 2¢. Looking Forward to more, subscribed.
Great video. The only thing that wasn’t correct was Anita wasn’t on the phone with him. They supposedly had an argument and she left to go to the gym. he called her just before doing that to apologize and saying that he loved her. His son Juan and his family were in the other room of the house. They said it sounded like a book dropping on the floor. So it was his son that found him and called 911.
He the guy you look up to when you are in your teens or early 20s. I used to look up to him but at the end of the day he was just a drug addict and took the easy way out. Sure he had a few amazing pieces but I just don't care much for his drug fuled rants
Hold on. You are a non-native speaker? I have never met one person who would describe him as, "a villian". Met many who think he was irresponsible, overrated, disgusting, or morally bankrupt- but not evil. The dude communicated an unorthodox point of view, but was was not malicious, hateful, or destructive to human rights/dignity.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. When I used the term "villain" to describe him, I didn't mean it in the traditional sense of pure malice or evil. Rather, I was referring to the complex duality of his character. His fearless behavior as well as his irresponsibility. It is this blend of heroic and villainous traits that what makes him so interesting. I wouldn't call him a devil. He embodied characteristics from both ends of the spectrum, much like a movie character. I think there is a thin line between being a hero and a villain. He was both at different moments. If the video didn’t fully capture that, that's my bad!
Puerto Rico is not a different country. It has the spirit of one, but it is not one by every legal or official term. This is coming from a Puerto Rican.
Hunter was both genius & madman. You have to have a little of both. Otherwise you are just boring & no fun. Nobody could claim Hunter S was ANY of the former!
