DemPGH
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« on: April 13, 2014, 03:11:54 PM » |
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He was a decided far left liberal who loved guns but did not care very much for gun culture. Anti-corporatism is laced all through his work, most especially The Rum Diary (which is brilliantly funny) and his critique of capitalism in Las Vegas (probably the book I've read the most times) leaves no doubt that he was NO Libertarian. He also repeatedly despises "high rollers." It's possible to argue in his later years that he kind of "sold out" and accepted that he had become a kind of brand, but he was no Libertarian. He viewed capitalism without restraint as a clear form of outright degeneracy.
He was also a perfect example of a person who existed at the zone where madman and genius intersect.
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