Originally posted by kmax87Personally, I'd rather spend a moment remembering C S Lewis. His books are still influencing people (and now, also making a lot of money at the box office).
More really just in honor of that other American guy.
I'm not trying to be insensitive, but think about it. By now JFK would most likely have died anyway, and 43 years on the course of history has moved so far that I can't help wondering whether his untimely death really has a great deal of significance for us, here and now. Maybe it had some particular impact on the American psyche, but even that's doubtful. There have been numerous assassinations of Presidents and other prominent American figures. Why has THIS one become so significant - because there are pictures?
Originally posted by orfeoWhatever you do don't tell Oswald that, it would ruin his day.
Personally, I'd rather spend a moment remembering C S Lewis. His books are still influencing people (and now, also making a lot of money at the box office).
I'm not trying to be insensitive, but think about it. By now JFK would most likely have died anyway, and 43 years on the course of history has moved so far that I can't help wondering whether his unti ...[text shortened]... nent American figures. Why has THIS one become so significant - because there are pictures?
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Originally posted by orfeoFor many of us, the killing of John F. Kennedy was a rude awakening. It marked the end of an age of innocence and complacency and contributed to the decades of turmoil that followed. It replaced confidence with despair. It made us vulnerable. And yes, by now JFK would have died.. but you and I are still here.
I'm not trying to be insensitive, but think about it. By now JFK would most likely have died anyway, and 43 years on the course of history has moved so far that I can't help wondering whether his untimely death really has a great deal of significance for us, here and now. Maybe it had some particular impact on the American psyche, but even that's doubtful. There ... American figures. Why has THIS one become so significant - because there are pictures?
Originally posted by orfeoAlas, only Christians (mostly evangelicals) read C.S. Lewis, no one reads Huxley, and the Warren Connission Report is better fiction than either put out.
I'm guessing it's a reference to some famous people dying. Aldous Huxley, C S Lewis, and some other American guy...
EDIT: Apparently, the Beatles also released their 2nd album. Insensitive jerks!
Shortly after their second album, Bob Dylan introduced the Beatles to pot, and their music went through a fundamental alteration as a consequence.
Originally posted by orfeoI don't think anyone could encapsulate fully why it seemed to affect so many and have a life of its own for so long. I think that there are pictures. I think the fascination over his assasination. But almost every aspect of his life has some fascinating quality to it that makes you notice. I think the biggest part of it was the what if.
By now JFK would most likely have died anyway, and 43 years on the course of history has moved so far that I can't help wondering whether his untimely death really has a great deal of significance for us, here and now. Maybe it had some particular impact on the American psyche, but even that's doubtful. There have been numerous assassinations of Presidents a ...[text shortened]... minent American figures. Why has THIS one become so significant - because there are pictures?
You would have to be a very emotionally dead person or an accountant to not have been somewhat swept along by his persona or his rhetoric. On a personal side his father held him to a very high standard of what it meant to be a Kennedy and though by all accounts he was very much the runt of the litter in terms of physical prowess, he pushed himself beyond ordinary limits of pain just to satisfy that sense of paternal expectation.
He was glamourous, he was a womanizer extraordinaire. The fact that he would have easily given Errol Flynn or Howard Hughes a run for their money in the shaggadelic stakes makes him a legend, a mans man. But he was always much more than that.
Whether the establishment feared him or whether he simply outmaneuvered himself or whether a protestant world wasn't quite ready for the spectre of Rome in their porridge, he was at once the most accessible enigma that American politics had seen for many a long year.
Salut.