'Fear and Loathing' Revisited
On night of Trump assassination attempt, Hunter S. Thompson's widow reminded the world about when that famous phrase was first coined
In the hours after the assassination attempt upon former president Donald Trump last July, Anita Thompson, widow of the late “gonzo” journalist Hunter S. Thompson, took to X to remind people where her husband’s iconic term “fear and loathing” first emerged.
Thompson coined the term in a somewhat despairing letter to his friend, the novelist William Kennedy, in the hours after President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
“There is no human being within 500 miles to whom I can communicate anything — much less the fear and loathing [emphasis added] that is on me after today's murder…,” Thompson wrote to Kennedy.
The fear has been dissolved by the realization that there is nothing of value left to be taken from us.
Which is to say, those of us who are truly conscious are fearless. And that should scare the shit out of those we loathe.
But it doesn't.
I just finished the best book on the assassination (coup) that took place by the CIA: "JFK and the Unspeakable". The "Unspeakable" are those in the CIA and ultrawealthy that have stolen this nation and sold it off to forces like the Zioinists.