Me, Myself & I

Hunter S. Thompson placed himself at the centre of every narrative he wrote and, along with the equally tawdry Andy Warhol, reinvented celebrity. Warhol was a starfucker who embraced the very celebrity Thompson - who was just a plain old fucker - would come to despise by the time he was outdrawing the candidates he was covering on the 1976 U.S. presidential campaign trail.

Inadvertently, Warhol and Thompson encouraged people to become so narcissistic we have gone from the 1970s Me Generation to the Me, Myself and I Generation. Today everybody wants to be famous. They just don't want to earn it. Today, armed with videocams and suffering from blog-lust, everybody's a pundit or porn star.

American culture represents a nihilistic west disappearing into a whirlpool of narcissism, sentimentality and moral emptiness. We have sold our souls for the freedom to shop and screw as and when we wish.

American Ideology: The Cult of Individualism

Bracing against the Marxist menace, America erected a powerful pantheon of ideas where the deities of Capital received frequent and fulsome tribute. Foremost among these deities was Individuality.

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