I'm reminded of Hunter S. Thompson's famous book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." It reflects on the decline of the 1960s counterculture movement. Here is the passage:
"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning... And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave... So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
This quote is a poignant reflection on the fleeting nature of cultural revolutions and the inevitable decline that follows the peak of idealism.
I'm reminded of Hunter S. Thompson's famous book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." It reflects on the decline of the 1960s counterculture movement. Here is the passage:
"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning... And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
This quote is a poignant reflection on the fleeting nature of cultural revolutions and the inevitable decline that follows the peak of idealism.
I'm reminded of Hunter S. Thompson's famous book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." It reflects on the decline of the 1960s counterculture movement. Here is the passage:
"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning... And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
This quote is a poignant reflection on the fleeting nature of cultural revolutions and the inevitable decline that follows the peak of idealism.
I'm reminded of Hunter S. Thompson's famous book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." It reflects on the decline of the 1960s counterculture movement. Here is the passage:
*"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning... And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."*
This quote is a poignant reflection on the fleeting nature of cultural revolutions and the inevitable decline that follows the peak of idealism.