20-02-2011, 06:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 20-02-2011, 03:14 PM by Charles Drago.)
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:In fact it confirms one of my longstanding beliefs about the first generation of critics: they did not go far enough. THey just accepted things like Oswald and the rifle for the reason that they could not imagine just how bad the FBI and WC really were.
Technically accurate. But I think we can agree that slack deserves to be cut.
Here's the point: It was the first generation of critics who instilled in the rest of us not just the requisite skills and insight to question authority, but also the confidence to do so.
They did not have the benefit of antecedents.
Thanks to them, we do.
They could not imagine.
Thanks to them, we can.
They were pioneers traversing terra incognita. So much to investigate, so little time.
We stand on their shoulders.
Charles Drago
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Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene