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Thompson – there’s buckets loads of bleak and twisted
humour which certainly makes him the funniest writer
of the 20th century in my opinion, but Thompson meant
all of it.
And this is what it comes down to. Hunter S. Thompson
was a consummate hellraiser and we loved him for
it. But that’s not what made him such an enduring, important
figure in American letters. His perception of the
collapse of America’s moral values both at home and
in its projection into the world through foreign policy
and intervention – or the lack of it – is what fuelled all
of his work throughout his writing career. He wanted to
be proud of America and for America to truly live up to
the ideals it has ascribed itself. For all the perception of
Thompson’s “outlaw” status and frequent brushes with
the law, Thompson was a deeply moral man, concerned
only with the destruction of his own country by greed
and avarice.
Farewell then, HST. Your passing means one less
strong voice of sanity in these Satanic times. �
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