Vox Populi..

The most influential force in society, the media has for years been a chronicle of the zeitgeist, typifying public opinion on everything imaginable. For the outspoken the media is an invaluable tool with which to evangelise unspoken truths. During the latter half of the 20th Century, three ambassadors of American counter-culture – Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Joseph Heller - used their art form as a weapon against society and the force that governed it. The trio’s distinctly different approaches all pointed to the same targets – the heart of the American dream, and the jugular of US society.

All of these writers live in a time where avarice, racism and corruption are rife in society and government. Hunter Thompson chronicles the ‘fear and loathing’ he experiences in Las Vegas, but his themes are much farther reaching. By an unspoken caucus he became the leader of the disenchanted generation of late 60’s America. Staunchly anti-Nixon, Thompson’s pioneering work in Gonzo Journalism may have generated detractors of such s

"But more than anyone else, Hunter Thompson has damaged and discredited New Journalism's promise. Instead of being exhilarated by his freedom, he was corrupted by it. Instead of using it in the search for truth, he used it for trivial self-promotion"

“Dwayne went on calling for Niggers to come talk to him. He smiled. He thought that the Creator of the Universe had programmed them all to hide, as a joke.”

“So Dwayne backed away some, contented himself with preaching up at Wayne. He spoke about human slavery – not only black slaves, but white slaves, too. Dwayne regarded coal miners and workers on assembly lines and so forth as slaves, no matter what color they were.”

Thompson then goes on to say the attorney is “in spite of his race”, “extremely valuable to me". While on the surface this may sound like Thompson is speaking of his attorney’s value to him in legal terms, one could also take it as a deeper statement of Thompson’s desire to have a companion with him on his quest.

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