In a feature article on Hunter S. Thomson, Rolling Stone compiled a series of interviews of friends, peers, colleagues, etc. This is from Rolling Stone November 2007 issue that I've been waiting to look at for months of it sitting in a container over the pacific. Enjoy.
Hunter wrote a third-prize essay for the Athenaeum Spectator called "Open Letter to the Youth of Our Nation", which began, "Young people of America, awake from your slumber of indolence and harken to the call of the future! Do you realise that you are rapidly becoming a doomed generation? ... O ignorant youth, the world is not a joyous place. The time has come for you to dispense with the frivolous pleases of childhood and get down to honest toil until you are sixty-five. Then and only then can you relax and collect your Social Security and live happily until the time of your death." He signed it, "Fearfully and disgustedly yours, John J. Righteous-Hypocrite."
props for the Thompson post.
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p.s. you spelled his name wrong