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http://www.sfexaminer.com/san-francisco-...o-success/
This profile deals mostly with my new memoir, THE BROKEN PLACES,
but touches on the Tippit murder.
I am happy to read responses on Facebook including
Joe Green saying "Great article" and Mark O'Blazney offering
this amusing response:
"I kind of liked your fruitless plan to save the world. Reminds me of Ginsberg trying to call the White House to convince Jack to drop some LSD with Khrushchev, and all would be well, you'd see."
Well, at least I tried to save the world.
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Joseph McBride Wrote:http://www.sfexaminer.com/san-francisco-...o-success/
This profile deals mostly with my new memoir, THE BROKEN PLACES,
but touches on the Tippit murder.
I am happy to read responses on Facebook including
Joe Green saying "Great article" and Mark O'Blazney offering
this amusing response:
"I kind of liked your fruitless plan to save the world. Reminds me of Ginsberg trying to call the White House to convince Jack to drop some LSD with Khrushchev, and all would be well, you'd see."
Well, at least I tried to save the world.
Good article and nice to finally put a face to your name. I see you are in my age cohort. I too liked your idea to save the World and can't imagine how it could wind you into a psychiatric hospital when it involved no harm to anyone. People in the World think very small and keep their thumb on their scripts given to them by society....anyone who deviates [i.e. can think for themselves] gets punished, ground down, ignored, or worse.
Well, it seems that Jack did drop some acid with M.P. Meyers - and it did change him....so much so that they felt they had to kill him for that [and a few dozen other things].
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
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I wonder what good a course on Lubitsch is in today's age considering the quality of movies that seem to be geared to selling tickets to the urban mob.
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That was a good article. I didn't realize you were at SFSU. Always nice to find more deep thinkers in the Bay Area!
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Peter, Thanks much for your empathetic response to my post and to my plan to save the world! While that hubristic/idealistic scheme alarmed
people, even though I meant well, I was also in a bad way physically and psychologically due to what the doctor in Sam Fuller's film
MERRILL'S MARAUDERS diagnoses as "AOE -- Accumulation of Everything." Years of family turmoil, abuse
in grade school and high school, and Catholic sexual repression took their toll as I headed into my perilous adolescent
years. The JFK assassination also shook me profoundly when I was a junior in high school, shattering my faith in our government and changing
my ambition from politician to writer (working for JFK had inspired me to follow in his
footsteps, but instead I turned to studying his assassination as a lifelong mission). That disillusionment coincided with my loss of faith in the church. My entire
false foundational system collapsed. So the breakdown -- manifested
by my plan to save the world, partly a cry for help to my mother, who was off covering LBJ's 1965 inauguration --
was a blessing in disguise, the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Chris Bennett Wrote:That was a good article. I didn't realize you were at SFSU. Always nice to find more deep thinkers in the Bay Area!
Thanks, Chris. Yes, I am fortunate to have a second home at SFSU
in the Cinema Department. I hope to run into you at some
assassination-related event up here. The Bay Area boasts
those great scholars Peter Dale Scott and Dr. Gary Aguilar, among
others.
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Albert Doyle Wrote:I wonder what good a course on Lubitsch is in today's age considering the quality of movies that seem to be geared to selling tickets to the urban mob.
Albert, the question of how, and if, Lubitschean values can
survive in today's world is a good one that I discuss
in detail in my book. I love his films and am paying
tribute to this great artist who is too often ignored
today, partly because of the general crassness into which
the romantic comedy genre he invented has descended. Some
filmmakers still try to emulate him with more or less
success, and I hope my book will stimulate more screenings
of his work and rediscovery of his largely unknown German
and American silent work.
