An American Rebel | Hunter S. Thompson

[@jonathansteiner8053]

I feel what Hunters work taught me is that the American dream is the pursuit. Not that it doesn't exist but rather the journey is what matters and not the destination.

[@Nitidus]

So you actually drew a different conclusion than what he did himself? Also, I'd argue that that's not what the "American Dream" is sold as to the rest of the world, probably not even to the American people. The destination is why people begin that journey at all. From rags to riches. In general, I feel like saying that it's about the "journey" is often used as a decoy to keep people quiet and suppress rebellious or revolutionary tendencies; as in, "Don't worry, it's gonna get better if you just keep working! It's the journey that matters, not the destination, so it's okay that you're still poor and depressed twenty years later!" Not saying that that's what you mean at all, don't get me wrong. It's how I think the phrase has been used politically for a long time.

[@TerryWhisk]

I thought it taught you to live a life of selfish drug fueled hedonism and then to commit suicide when you’re talking to your wife on the phone

[@brutanedda3107]

I don't think that's the American dream. The idea is exactly the opposite of it's implications actually cause. At best, it can be an American fever dream, to be honest. Freedom's greatest manifestation is like a short drug high, like a gunshot. It doesn't mean that life it's not worth of be living. But by your definition is better to go through a journey to avoid the american dream than to believe in it and end up like, I don't know, Werner Herzog's Stroszek

[@kevinwhelan9607]

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?"--Thomas Grey

[@freedomworks3976]

Well said sir

[@BenjaminLayhe]

It wasn't until you said to subscribe that I saw that you didn't have millions of subscribers. Your research and editing are amazing, you need to continue!!!

[@AnotherDive]

Appreciate it.

[@JeffreyGaston-hz7zo]

Excellent video. His time with the Hells Angels should be a movie in itself.

[@geetarman513]

I love the fact that you are celebrating Hunter my favorite writer!

[@CRAIG5835]

Hope you subscribed then.

[@BigDismal]

Every now and again I come across a video that really deserves more exposure and a lot more appreciation. This is one such piece of work. Well done; a fitting homage to a legend of a man.

[@VitaKet]

I wish HST was here to comment on the current events going on in the USA...

[@DistrictWitch]

seriously! I think his health was too bad by then though

[@danielburke4113]

I'd love to see what HST would think of Trump!

[@vanaxana]

Maybe it's good that he's gone. He couldn't handle the fucking shit show. Or America couldn't handle Hunter S Thompson?

[@willyfuckinwonka9411]

Even though he critisised the right wing establishment back then, he would be called a nazi and cancelled the moment he showed up today

[@adam973]

Awesome work! It's really nice to see relatively new creators with this level of talent putting out videos

[@richardbullwood5941]

After reading fear and loathing, and making it through some of his other works, I have come to a conclusion. I will never think he is as cool as he thinks he is

[@philippmuller7635]

This was the best Video of such a Small creator that i have Seen in a Long Time. Keep Up the good Work

[@kindnessmattersffs]

No mention of the Bill Murray film "Where the Buffalo Roam??" One of my favorite movies EVER!!

[@SiloSoundStudios]

Ohhh is this the old baby faced nelson place?

[@Me-dw3hm]

The only people that know where the edge is are the ones that have went over it. I miss the good Dr. Thanks for the great video

[@amirdaylamani]

Hunter Thompson was the embodiment of the sixties spirit. A rockstar author who owned his voice. His description of Hells Angels was so immersive that you couldn't differentiate between the author and the subject. Hope to see more videos like this about other cool forgotten figures. 🤘🤘

[@AnotherDive]

🤘

[@CMDMedia94]

Great work! Looking forward to your next one.

[@diesel5382]

Good work my guy. I was so little and soooo impressed when I first saw Fear and Loathing.

[@sarakavandi2107]

"A professional trouble maker" lol Such an individualist. "As much a villain as he was a hero" Those are such great ways to describe him

[@hjeriz]

the king is back

[@felixjones9198]

As a professional writer, HST is one of my biggest influences. The man is a legend.

[@AgentMeech]

fantastically done. looking forward to more of your stories

[@dihexa7256]

My father looked so eerily similar to Hunter S. Thompson that I’m still not sure whether Thompson piped my grandmother about 60 years ago

[@AnotherDive]

😁

[@andrewgraz15]

Great video

[@donaldlariviere]

this is an extremely high quality video. great job:)

[@kevinwhelan9607]

This was excellent - thanks for going to the trouble of making it❤

[@dorskien]

great video! keep up the good work, because you deserve every view you get! looking forward to seeing your coming projects as a new subscriber!

[@AnotherDive]

Thank you so much!

[@BillThompson-vq2rk]

Thanks for this video piece; it's a fine summary of a great creative force/man. (I've subscribed.)

[@quitcallinmebill1699]

He found it and lived it.

[@marieldowns5674]

Awesome !

[@lovafornstol5086]

Superb thanks for the video!

[@pabilbadoespecial]

Holy shit, this video is amazing

[@noveltycrusade]

Interesting recap

[@CJ_YT_2001]

Brilliant work mate

[@sonbrotherfriend]

Insanely well made vid. New subscriber

[@LandonHenkel]

great vid man keep it up your channels underrated

[@OwenZsillei]

Really solid stuff.

[@bradleylaboe6455]

Outstanding overview... from a kitchen creature... you forgot that he got 2 funerals the first one was held at the Jerome Hotel months before the 2nd

[@Ganglo-Saxon]

great video on a great guy

[@user-ek6hl1oz6j]

A good documantary about 1970 and 1980 decades...

[@starbornentity]

cool vid

[@MEHoward]

great video

[@westonlong]

How would Hunter react to our modern day political landscape?

[@thisisjixxi]

enjoyed the fuck out of this video! keep up the good work! you got a new sub

[@simsam863]

He looks like Jim lahey in the thumbnail

[@mortimersnerd8044]

So true, although their attitudes towards authority couldn't be more opposite and HST could out drink Jim and Julian combined.

[@simsam863]

@@mortimersnerd8044 I don’t know about that last part, Jim is the liquor.

[@andystreepy3146]

Hi, well so far its cool and i subbed

[@csimw2330]

Hunter didn’t like living up to the party animal/wild card image he’d created. Ultimately what led him to taking his own life. He was a just a good ol boy from Kentucky.

[@RileyZilla1001]

8:11 after Steadman's first taste of LSD. 🤣

[@aroundhedleybc7483]

Hmmmm…how ‘bout both?

[@Abakato]

Hunter S Thompson is Borat before Borat except he's himself instead of a character.

[@friedrichhegel-yx3bk]

Nah thats aint it

[@edmundvalero6841]

dont know why you came to that conclusion but its wrong

[@jr2904]

No way

[@mortimersnerd8044]

I'll buck the trend here and say that's a good comparison. They both created an outrageous fictional character to explore the dominant hypocrisies of their worlds. Thompson kept the boundary between his true and fictional selves a lot blurrier than Cohen did though.

[@macgrey400]

Hey Pooyan! I love the background music in your videos. I’m am starting to make videos on a different account, and am wondering how you find copyright free music of this quality. Subscribed!

[@AnotherDive]

I use Epidemic Sound and thank you for sub!

[@tomg6286]

Hunter enjoyed the bad guy image, as with so many who think they are bad with pushed he ran away.

[@regularorangelighter]

Great video. Subscribed. What’s that song playing in the end?

[@AnotherDive]

Appreciate it. The song is Silly Simon by TAGE.

[@jayhersker6286]

Better to be mad with the rest of the world than to be wise alone.

[@robbie5984]

Great video. The only thing that wasn’t correct was Anita wasn’t on the phone with him. They supposedly had an argument and she left to go to the gym. he called her just before doing that to apologize and saying that he loved her. His son Juan and his family were in the other room of the house. They said it sounded like a book dropping on the floor. So it was his son that found him and called 911.

[@gordonhall9871]

Bill Murray played him in a 80s movie

[@mortimersnerd8044]

Excellently edited, but it's Mostly a collection of well known stories and common cliches about HST. It's.kind of what I'd expect Chat-GPT to say about him. Was this written by AI? I ask becsuse the doc. said he was searching for the Americsn dream which is untrue. His character Raoul Duke claimed to be doing that, but only as a colourful way of documenting its death

[@AnotherDive]

Hey, thanks for watching.I get what you're saying. The video was meant to give a mix of well-known and some lesser-known stories about him. It's a 15 min video, so I had to choose between covering the essentials or doing a deep dive on a specific aspect. And just to clear it up, it wasn't written by AI. Reading his articles about Jimmy Carter's candidacy, you can see how much he was disappointed with American politics before Carter's election. It was a sense of lost idealism in a corrupt system, part of his broader search for the American dream-at least that's how i see it.

[@mortimersnerd8044]

@@AnotherDive, cheers and thanks for the thoughtful response. I see you like big topics, perhaps a good way of handling some of these would be covering them in a brief series of shorter, more bite-sized vids - all leading to a summation. The single long deep dive can lose less involved listeners and I think AI is probably going to crush the short, all-in-one type doc. Just my additional 2¢. Looking Forward to more, subscribed.

[@benburndred2226]

He never mentions nixons policies, just ad hom stuff

[@Candyohh]

More like drunk and stoned. Not saying he wasn't mad though. As for genius? That would be debatable.

[@douweanne]

Bukowski next?

[@benjaminwharrier]

I love it when there are captions I can’t turn off.

[@benjaminwharrier]

Brilliant video, nonetheless

[@AnotherDive]

I hear you dude😄 I can tell you, i did question the decision but i just went with it. still wonderin'!

[@DonJuan-up2zt]

Hunter wasn't a rebel. He was drug addict.

[@sebastian.p8132]

He the guy you look up to when you are in your teens or early 20s. I used to look up to him but at the end of the day he was just a drug addict and took the easy way out. Sure he had a few amazing pieces but I just don't care much for his drug fuled rants

[@albundy9793]

It’s a fine line between madness and genius…Hunter S Thompson snorted it.

[@jovanjanevski3747]

Fear and loathing in potatoe country. 🥔

[@seasonedstefan]

Who is the voice at 1:00 ?

[@usernamesta3334]

Joe rogan duhhh

[@JEEDUHCHRI]

“Ya kind of mimic it”. Joe Rogan please, he couldn’t carry Thompson’s typewriter case.

[@seasonedstefan]

@@usernamesta3334 oh yeaaaaaa now i see it haha

[@Redmenace96]

Hold on. You are a non-native speaker? I have never met one person who would describe him as, "a villian". Met many who think he was irresponsible, overrated, disgusting, or morally bankrupt- but not evil. The dude communicated an unorthodox point of view, but was was not malicious, hateful, or destructive to human rights/dignity.

[@AnotherDive]

Thank you for your thoughtful comment. When I used the term "villain" to describe him, I didn't mean it in the traditional sense of pure malice or evil. Rather, I was referring to the complex duality of his character. His fearless behavior as well as his irresponsibility. It is this blend of heroic and villainous traits that what makes him so interesting. I wouldn't call him a devil. He embodied characteristics from both ends of the spectrum, much like a movie character. I think there is a thin line between being a hero and a villain. He was both at different moments. If the video didn’t fully capture that, that's my bad!

[@setituptoblowitup]

Good thing he wrote books sure ass hell couldn't understand what the fuck he was saying.

[@San-li9ml]

Puerto Rico is not a different country. It has the spirit of one, but it is not one by every legal or official term. This is coming from a Puerto Rican.

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

You missed the point of him

[@RileyZilla1001]

This is also Bill Murray erasure

[@pavlestanimirovic]

Love this life with HTS is with me now contact me for the most important story

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

You must be both or none

[@gorillafunk725]

Hunter was both genius & madman. You have to have a little of both. Otherwise you are just boring & no fun. Nobody could claim Hunter S was ANY of the former!

[@CoyoteroApachu]

Not going to lie I thought he was Jim lahey 😭

[@NewportBox100s]

Great video

[@RileyZilla1001]

8:11 after Steadman's first taste of LSD. 🤣