" [H]e doesn't see America as Grandma Moses depicted it, or the way they painted it for us in civics class, he does in his own mad way betray a profound democratic concern for the polity. ''
This was certainly true and it influenced a generation to not give up on - and even to love - America.
" There's a generation of us now who've been fueled by Hunter's rhythms and sparked by the way he took shots, at power and for freedom, whether it be of ideas, of speech, or on behalf of guys getting jobbed by the man. "
That's true too.
And something else that is true: There's a generation of us - the same one referred to above, in fact - who had been taught from a very young age that drugs will fuck you up. From Hunter we learned that that was the whole point.
Posted by Martial