CBS from 10 years ago features the breaking news clips as reports of Kennedy’s assassination came out.
Ask anybody that was around then. That’s when things started getting weird.
CBS from 10 years ago features the breaking news clips as reports of Kennedy’s assassination came out.
Ask anybody that was around then. That’s when things started getting weird.
Things were always weird. Civilization is the formalization & institutionalization of a particular mental illness complex & it’s always perpetuated it. Traumatic degradations like 30 Years War damaged minds in society significantly more, and healing has only been available sporadically. Avulsion from homes & ecosystems led to rampant genocide & slavery in the Americas. The industrialization of war & life in the US Civil War, & War of 1870 further degraded the mind-in-society, leading to the 2nd 30 Years War and a significant erosion of global sanity. Germany’s more virulent strain of the disease was passed on & concentrated through selective processes; the trauma of deprivation & fear in the inter-war years piled onto Germany’s horrific child-rearing practices* led to the disease taking over the country.
But there’s a trap, a dilemma. Once the disease reaches a certain strength, either in numbers or severity, the only way ordinary people can think of to defeat its ruthless, deceptive, & manipulative nature is to become ruthless, deceptive, & manipulative—to let the disease in. For some, for a while, it can be a balancing act, but the Republicans have been taken by the disease and the Democrats, also falling victim to it, don’t have nearly the strength or wisdom to defeat or balance anything. So the US caught the virulent strain in WWII; it manifested in a move to the right, adopting the oligarchy’s anti-communist fear and hatred of sharing, cooperation, and equality.
Atomic, then nuclear weapons drove the desire for domination-by-war underground, into proxies, and into unconsciousness and shadow, which emerges in twisted ways from the collective psyche, so the fifties became the ugliest decade in US history, characterized by paranoia and over-reaction against moves toward peace, equality, cooperation, and ecological awareness. Considering how much of a driver and tool Kennedy was of the neoliberal empire, it’s an indication of how extreme right his killer/s were that he was thought to be a threat from the left.
*Alice Miller, For Your Own Good, & other works
Jessica Benjamin, The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination
Deborah Blum, Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism.
The best book on the JFK assassination is Gerald Posner’s Case Closed written 30 years ago. Dan Rather and Posner present just some of the overwhelming evidence that vindicates the Single Bullet Theory:
https://youtu.be/d5zQLD4FEMg