Sustainability and Politics: Hunter S. Thompson

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Hunter S. Thompson

Funny, a friend posted one of Hunter's great quotes on Facebook today. I just saw a poster-sized picture of him in Boulder bookstore last week, hadn't thought of him in awhile. Miss me some HST shooting from the hip, taking no prisoners.

My comments, for posterity:

I was in a Colorado bookstore last week, Beat Book Shop, and the owner knew and had hung with Hunter. Told Nina about him. He didn't mince words, and his political commentary is as white-hot and razor sharp as ever. We could use some more Hunter in these days of comfortable apathy... when the wolves of capitalism are still feasting on community coffers

and the lambs of what were the 'middle class'

scroll vaguely through the tv remote looking for escape

hoping social security is still there.

Hunter would further call the wolves venal, irrational, black-hearted beasts

(I.e., the Koch Brothers)

who would eat their young live before giving up some small chunk of their empire (for those who have less exposure to Hunter, there you go).

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.