JFK: Like most people my age, I remember the exact moment I heard. Mr. Beckmans Art 7th grade art class. Rumor had started a few minutes before the loud speaker announcement, pocket AM/FMs were our I-Pods then. School was dismissed immediately. Many people, including me, stayed glued to the T.V. for the next few days. We were saddened, intrigued and worried as new and conflicting information flowed over the airwaves. For those born after the cold war was over, it is impossible to comprehend the mind set of my generation. At night, as I fell asleep, I would listen to the sounds of air craft over head with a knowing reflection of the destructive power of the nuclear threat. Teachers would have us get under our desks at school, but even in elementary school, I could look at a map and realize that being only a few miles for the White House I was in the Kill Zone. Anyone, including grade school kids, that could read a newspaper, was aware of the destructive power of the new and improved bombs floating around. Having teachers instruct us to get under the desk just added one more bizarre surrealistic layer to our reality. It also introduced to our young minds the notion that older people in authority are either deluded or lie. This became a very salient motif that would be reinforced time and again in the coming years by obvious distortions between what we were told and what we could easily find out for ourselves. Nothing that happened since has dissuaded this growing disgust and distrust of government information. When Oswald was shot it became immediately clear to me what a profound mess this was. This country has never been the same, the lies have only grown, how else do we wind up living in a world with over 700 trillion dollars worth of Credit Default Swaps. Many can no longer bear to look. That is a way to explain the fascination with these insignificant headline grabbing stories which play 24/7. They are something we can comprehend, something that doesnt shake us to the core, something that can be resolved. It is a unique injustice to the memory of JFK and to the office of the President of the United States that his murder has not been treated with the gravitas of Nazi war criminals or cold cases just as old. For a moment Obama seemed to offer a glimpse of hope, change, restoration. That moment has long sense past. The way his credibility is unraveling it is hard to imagine 3 more years of his administration. He has empowered the troglodytes just as they were in major self destruct mode. An impeachment could come swiftly and with slight provocation, some how Obama has become a victim of his own virtue and more telling, his I know best incompetence. Yes, there is vestigial racism in the air, but that is not the problem. Its Obamas remote, cloister, abstract style; his failure to connect, a kind of a talking down to people that has quickly worn thin and grown old. Anyhow, 11/22, happy day, not so much.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:48:03 +0000
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