Hunter Stockton Thompson wrote something a few years prior to his alleged suicide that fits quite well with the current global climate and the demise of the middle class.
The horrible reality of suddenly being stone broke and homeless is more than most people in this country can handle. They will literally seize up and go mad. Your everyday Nervous Breakdown is nothing compared to the hopeless Craziness of a man who woke up in the morning as a Prince and went to bed as a Toad.
That is a guaranteed overweening shock to the Central Nervous System; if you don't go insane from suddenly having to see everything in the world from a point only two inches high, your brain will be churned into cream by having to crawl, head-first, with your eyes open, down a muddy hole in the ground, just to have a place to sleep.
Nobody could handle a situation like That. It is Unacceptable. It is worse than any dream that ever happened in the worst and most tortured hallucinations ever suffered by the most pitiful LSD victim. ... I spent a lot of time with Allen Ginsberg, and I have swapped gruesome tales over whiskey at night with William Burroughs, and neither one of them ever even mentioned a vision so horrible as being instantly changed from a rich and powerful human like Donald Trump into a common leaping toad.
Yet that is exactly what happens to people in this world who lose 71 percent of their customers in four weeks. They seize up and go crazy.
Of course, he was talking about the short lived NBC football league, the XFL, but in these short years since the beginning of our potentially intentional economic meltdown, with the collapse of the mortgage industry and the housing-bubble burst, I have known a great many small business owners who watched their tiny empires crumble. Many tried to push through with blind optimism, believing they could fail forward, while others - myself included wore the heartache and disgust on our sleeves as a lifes work was summed up by an unpayable mortgage.
Now whatever little hope may be left resides firmly in the grasp of the corporate criminals whose systematic policies of fucking the masses for the perpetuation of profits to the top five percent are responsible for getting us into this clusterfuck to the poorhouse.
Guaranteed Fear and Loathing. Abandon all hope. Prepare for the Weirdness. Get familiar with Cannibalism.
Good luck,
Doc.
The horrible reality of suddenly being stone broke and homeless is more than most people in this country can handle. They will literally seize up and go mad. Your everyday Nervous Breakdown is nothing compared to the hopeless Craziness of a man who woke up in the morning as a Prince and went to bed as a Toad.
That is a guaranteed overweening shock to the Central Nervous System; if you don't go insane from suddenly having to see everything in the world from a point only two inches high, your brain will be churned into cream by having to crawl, head-first, with your eyes open, down a muddy hole in the ground, just to have a place to sleep.
Nobody could handle a situation like That. It is Unacceptable. It is worse than any dream that ever happened in the worst and most tortured hallucinations ever suffered by the most pitiful LSD victim. ... I spent a lot of time with Allen Ginsberg, and I have swapped gruesome tales over whiskey at night with William Burroughs, and neither one of them ever even mentioned a vision so horrible as being instantly changed from a rich and powerful human like Donald Trump into a common leaping toad.
Yet that is exactly what happens to people in this world who lose 71 percent of their customers in four weeks. They seize up and go crazy.
Of course, he was talking about the short lived NBC football league, the XFL, but in these short years since the beginning of our potentially intentional economic meltdown, with the collapse of the mortgage industry and the housing-bubble burst, I have known a great many small business owners who watched their tiny empires crumble. Many tried to push through with blind optimism, believing they could fail forward, while others - myself included wore the heartache and disgust on our sleeves as a lifes work was summed up by an unpayable mortgage.
Now whatever little hope may be left resides firmly in the grasp of the corporate criminals whose systematic policies of fucking the masses for the perpetuation of profits to the top five percent are responsible for getting us into this clusterfuck to the poorhouse.
Guaranteed Fear and Loathing. Abandon all hope. Prepare for the Weirdness. Get familiar with Cannibalism.
Good luck,
Doc.
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