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Years ago Hunter S Thompson documented the Hell's Angels, if anyone is interested in this topic.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16032043-hells-angels

You might enjoy this video from television, 1967: https://youtu.be/ccyu44rsaZo

Warning, the misogyny is off the charts.

So weird to be watching something from 1967 and it feels like Jerry Springer.

I mean, it's not like the Jerry Springer show was that novel... They overhauled the show to match a format that was already pretty well understood.

There's a small part of the book that crosses over with the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests and the interpretation of events that transpired couldn't be further apart. It feels like that era of American literature is long past now.

It has been some time but I think it's from "Hells Angels' I learned Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, participated in MKUltra while working as a student at Menlo Park Veteran's Hospital and the character Chief was inspired by his own hallucinations.

Hunter S. Thompson partied with the Hells Angels at Ken Kesey's house with the Merry Pranksters. There's a lot to unpack there.

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