09-10-2012, 03:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-10-2012, 04:55 PM by Charles Drago.)
My problem is not with Mr. Schotz's intentions, but rather with his limited literary gifts.
The central conceit of this mini-drama, I would submit, is that "Dulles" is so skilled in the dark arts of deception that he can convince "JFK" to indict and convict himself of capital offenses and apologize to his own murderer for the transgressions that brought about a well-deserved act of regicide.
The dramatic argument that "Dulles" makes to "JFK" is, in condensed form, the real argument used to convince some Facilitators and accessories-after-the-fact that the violent removal of the president was a necessary, patriotic, righteous act.
The drama breaks down at the point when the dramatist asks us to suspend our disbelief and accept that "JFK" would agree with the argument for self-implication and offer his apology to "Dulles."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy as unenlightened, naive spirit?
A better writer might have convinced us that forgiveness of the murderer by the murdered is the ultimate expression of spiritual enlightenment, and that "JFK" was doing to his tormentor exactly what the latter was attempting -- and failing -- to do to him.
Not Mr. Schotz.
The central conceit of this mini-drama, I would submit, is that "Dulles" is so skilled in the dark arts of deception that he can convince "JFK" to indict and convict himself of capital offenses and apologize to his own murderer for the transgressions that brought about a well-deserved act of regicide.
The dramatic argument that "Dulles" makes to "JFK" is, in condensed form, the real argument used to convince some Facilitators and accessories-after-the-fact that the violent removal of the president was a necessary, patriotic, righteous act.
The drama breaks down at the point when the dramatist asks us to suspend our disbelief and accept that "JFK" would agree with the argument for self-implication and offer his apology to "Dulles."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy as unenlightened, naive spirit?
A better writer might have convinced us that forgiveness of the murderer by the murdered is the ultimate expression of spiritual enlightenment, and that "JFK" was doing to his tormentor exactly what the latter was attempting -- and failing -- to do to him.
Not Mr. Schotz.
Charles Drago
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
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