17-08-2013, 03:15 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:I think Charles is referring to the entirety of the event and on its many levels of comparmentalised effects. Forensic, psychological, political etc. How can any one really 'know' what happened? Even those participating in it don't really 'know' any thing except their own particulat role in it. Like the blind Indian men describing an elephant from the one part of the elepants body they can touch and describe. Charles will correct me if I am wrong.
Granted. But I believe the spirit of the statement concerns modeling. Isn't that what Deep Political thinking is supposed to be -- an attempt to derive an explanatory model? What is being proposed is that in an attempt to grasp the JFK assassination one can come to some understanding at least of a pattern which manifests itself much more generally.