Fear and Loathing Part two - Chapter 8

Chapter 2 (or rather the end of chapter 2) was a chapter worth noting with some hidden themes within. The incident about the hotel full of cops and Duke passing them all looking sluggish and getting the kindest treatment from the manager who had just turned down a chief sheriff and his wife.  I found this particularly interesting and a good view of America (or rather Las Vegas) through Duke’s eyes. In a hotel filled with policemen and anti-drug extremists comes this drug tweaked man with a brief case of every drug known to man. This man then jumps to the front of the line and gets the best service out of all of them and was sent away with a couple complimentary bottles of Bacardi and other luxuries. The book mentioned that the manager acted this way against all the policemen especially the police chief because he has had a bad past with police officers messing with him, and not it was his turn to return the favor. This type of situation I believe can only happen in America. If this happened in Korea lets say, things would be horribly different. America is the only place with free speech and free actions. It just gave me a different outlook about America and the basic concept of what goes around comes around. In response to your last post, I think throughout the book their goal was to sustain a sort of "perma-high" where they would be constantly high through their endeavors.