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silversaff Hmm, I wonder why a drug-addict shot himself. Personally, I feel no pity for a drug-addict primadonna who got popular on nothing but drug-enhanced ravings who shot himself. He won't poison anyone else into his lifestyle.

Of course it's entirely posssible he did it to get away from shallow pigfucking elegies to mediocrity like you.

Hunter S Thompson did a lot of drugs, he did them brilliantly and with more style and grace than almost anyone else (the only other person I can think of who even comes close is Ken Kesey). The man was a shining star of heartbreak. It's obvious you never actually read any of the things he wrote, he so perfectly captured the sense of (to use his words) fear and loathing at the hypocrisy and mendacity of the culture. In the eponyous fulminating outrage you could see reflected the best and the brightest potentials of our society and the terrible yawning chasm between where we are and that hallowed possibility.

He stuck around long enough to give us a beautiful glimps of what could be, and for that I am forever grateful.

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Personally, I feel no pity for a drug-addict primadonna who got popular on nothing but drug-enhanced ravings who shot himself. He won't poison anyone else into his lifestyle.

No, you don't know me, but see to someone reduce a man that revolutionized journalism and stood out as a clear voice of what was really going on during the 60's and 70's [when the rest of the media was settling down into the trough they now get fed by thanks to corporations] to "a drug addict primadonna" makes the response appropriate.

Have some damn respect regardless of what you feel about his writing... he made changes, and more poignant changes than your superiority complex toting daughter can [obviously] comprehend.