Feeling Fatalistic
Hunter Thompson killed himself on Sunday. On Monday, I was glancing through a book on Industrial Ecology and unwittingly opened up to a chapter that begins with a quote from Hunter Thompson. The essence of the quote is basically that we're slowing killing ourselves.
Is Hunter Thompson's suicide a canary in the coalmine?
When the most sophisticated subversive voices of our time brutally waste themselves it makes you wonder if they can predict something the rest of us can't.
Or, maybe he was just a paranoid drug addict who for a long time had a threadbare hold on life and with a little rehab, therapy, and yoga would have lived and written for another 20 years.
Whatever it is, it's sad. I think I can confidently say that these days journalism schools aren't churning out that quality of muckraker.
posted by rigmor at
8:54 AM
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I read "The Hitchikers Guide to the Galazy" a long time ago, and I'm not sure if I'd still like it the way I did when I was 11, but one part that is still cool to me is that a few eeeks before the world blows up, all the dolphins mysteriously disappear. It's later revealed that the dolphins knew what was coming and were escaping certain death.
Fascinating thought of HST being a canary in the coalmine, but I think it's more that the demons that help you to create great art often overtake the artist. He was lucky to make it to 2005.
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dantobindantobin, at 11:49 AM
Well said. And, with that logic, Paris Hilton is sure to live to be 150 or so.
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rigmor, at 5:31 PM
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