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Printed in Scanlon’s Monthly in June 1970, this piece by Hunter S. Thompson gave rise to gonzo journalism. ['Greetings, Stranger' is a hybrid of oral history and gonzo journalism. - ed]
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All evidence indicates that small acts of kindness occur in cities at the same rate as in rural areas. The world-famous Stanley Milgram–the very same who started the six-degrees experiment–conducted a groundbreaking study in the 70s where he asked increasingly onerous favors of city-slickers and country folk, and the resultant data suggested no correlation between location and willingness to comply with requests for favors of time from unfamiliar strangers.For example, take Toronto, a city with over 2.5 million inhabitants. Here’s the text from a hand-written sign posted on a telephone pole:To Larissa, Gus (?), Nurse with Ice Cream Cone, Man with Cellphone, Woman from La Hacienda with Wet Towels, THANK YOU!! For your most generous care and kindness when I fell off my bike on Tuesday, August 14th. I am fine and my stitches are healing. YOU GIVE ME FAITH IN HUMANITY.