LBJ passed away
from a broken heart
some say
His Great society down in flames
I watched Kissinger Snowcroft & Brzezinski on Charlie Rose last night
Henry got so much to say about the lessons of Vietnam
But I tuned him out cause he sounds like he never learned a thing
Audience broke out laughing a couple of times he looked suprised as if he did not realize he was being funny. Probably just me not getting it.
Too many cold warriors still fighting godless communism
Now Mao's red star and snappy slogans are fashion statements for jet the set.
Snowcroft made some interesting comments about technology, and he said China may not be a friend but they do not have to be our enemy but that is the direction we are headed in he said.
I liked this bit from Life Against Death...Normon O. Brown. about the superanuation of political categories.
Inheriting from the Protestant tradition a conscience which insisted that intellectual work should be directed toward the relief of man’s estate, I, like many of my generation, lived through the superannuation of the political categories which informed liberal thought and action in the 1930s.’ ‘Those of us who are temperamentally incapable of embracing the politics of sin, cynicism and despair’, he added, were ‘compelled to re-examine the classic assumptions about the nature of politics and about the political character of human nature.’
Radical Philosophy
Lets all hail Lennon and Marx
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