Why didn't the hippies get into the jfk assassination ?

[Magda Hassan]

There was push back by the hippies. The anti war movement was push back. Chris Hedges routinely talks about how Kissinger admits in his autobiography that the Nixon admin was terrified of the anti war movement.

Peace and the brotherhood of humanity. Their biggest fear.

I still don't understand where did the impetus of 1971-2 go?

FWIW
Jim

Most of the leadership was murdered or imprisoned or exiled by COINTELPRO. After that a rudderless often traumatized mass is easily manipulated and steered to inertia and impotence with distractions like drugs, wars on drugs, terror and wars on terror, easy money and debt.

The gates open

I trip therefore...

What?

we are one?

Where have the boundaries gone?

Crowleyian occultists and street hustlers play the role of shamanic guides

And gangster chic rubs up against Mick and Keith

Brian sinks in the pool - Death is real and final

The bard loses his mojo

His sense of invulnerability shatters

The forking paths of Borgesian time and space conjoin

Watch the Performance here:

Give me my boundaries back

Withdrawal into the private sphere is what allowed the 80s and 90s to happen. It is personally depressing to me to think of 1968, and then fast forward to 1984, with Reagan winning by an 80% landslide. What happened to all those bodies on the streets? Did all the hippies become yuppies?

An orgy of materiality

The gates close

The enlightenment of acid replaced by the hedonism of coke

I possess therefore I am

Of course, not all of this occurred "without help". The assassinations, cointelpro, and acts of sabotage and provocation like the murder of Hampton or Kent State, basically destroyed the active left, driving it back inside, into the confines of the university classroom, where it is much less threatening.

Lock up your daughters and fear freedom

"Manson killed the sixties" they screamed

Whilst the Phoenix Program deployed in America

Turned Heiress Patty into Tanya the Terrorist

And drowned the victims in kool-aid - injecting, strangling and shooting the captives with spirit

"Do the babies first, take out the babies first", said the Revd Jim Jones

The murder of hope

And the creation of fear

The many faces of the Strategy of Tension.

Brilliant post Jan. Bard and bardo. Set and setting. Indeed.


I wasn't at school, or even in the US, when JFK was assassinated. So no memories of that day. But in the early 1970's in far flung and provincial Australia while visiting my Swedish/Irish girlfriend Freya she told me how JFK had come to visit her last night. He sat on the end of her bed and looked at her. She knew who he was from photos she had seen some times. He looked very sad. She was sad for him. But he told her every thing would be okay. Then he left.