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Oscar Zeta Acosta -- despite any claims to the contrary -- was a dangerous thug who lived every day of his life as a stalking monument to the notion that a man with a greed for the Truth should expect no mercy and give none...
... and that was the difference between Oscar and a lot the merciless geeks he liked to tell strangers he admired: class acts like Benito Mussolini and Fatty Arbuckle.
When the great scorer comes to write against Oscar's name, one of the first few lines in the Ledger will note that he usually lacked the courage of consistently monstrous convictions. There was more mercy, madness, dignity and generosity in that overweight, overworked and always overindulged brown cannonball of a body than most of us will meet in any human package even three times Oscar's size for the rest of our lives -- which are all running noticeably leaner on the high side, since that rotten fat spic disappeared

>> No.10247062

Yeah.

>> No.10247073

There's not one Latino I care about.

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>>10246833

>> No.10247374

Alpha Zeta Beta Cathrin Indian House KeepbWorker Omegha

>> No.10247378

>>10246833
>a lot the merciless geeks he liked to tell strangers he admired
I've always appreciated Thompson's usage of the word "geek". Did he hijack the meaning, or is "freak" just what it meant in the 70s?

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This is now /HST/ general.

What was the point of Fear and Loathing?
Was it to glorify the mentality of 1960s FreeLove America? Or to show how empty it all was?

>> No.10247689

>>10247403
Neither. The 1960s FreeLove America wasn't necessarily empty. It may have had meaning to some, including Thompson, while it was happening but it ultimately failed to achieve anything concrete. It wasn't meaningless but it was a failure. Thompson acknowledges how special and powerful it felt to be in that moment but also understands that the moment is over and will never come back.

>> No.10247819

>>10247403
It was a parody

>> No.10247890

>>10247403
To show the futility and confusion surrounding the American Dream.

An experiment in Gonzo journalism.

To try something different and humorous and wild.

>> No.10248046

>>10247403
>>10247890
more likely to make a quick buck from jann wenner the cuck

>> No.10248099

>>10247378
the latter

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