Dohrn and Ayers make a great deal of sense and they do offer some vital hope in extremely dark times. They may have been fugitives from the law, but the law, back then, was in great part being dispensed by criminals. The war in Vietnam was criminal, we had a criminal running the country, for example. We have the same situation today, only far more accute, because we simply haven't really done our work on the Vietnam and Watergate disasters. As a society, I mean. So amen to those two, who put their finger on the sore spots: No opposition, a …
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Well, regarding those are comments that are obviously made for the shock effect and somewhere in the nether regions of tasteless, I couldn't agree more. I don't know much about either D or A (in fact I only read the article originally because I thought it might be about Kevin Ayers, one of the only pop singers I every liked)... I personally have another 12-14 years before I get up there into that age range. I certainly hope that people will not start judging me for the things I did or said when I was in my early 20s. We are …
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By the way.... Why are we really discussing these people's past... In the article they make points about the present and its youth movement if I recall correctly. For whatever reason, A and D may or may not have said some silly things when they were barely out of adolescence, they turned to violence (and we may all dislike violence, but there comes a frustration point, when violence does become the only apparent way out, especially in a Kafkaesque system, be it democratic or otherwise) because there seemed to be no other way out in extremely violent times. And for whatever …
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"Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness." James Thurber Why try to paraphrase this... Talleyrand (Y chromosome)
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I think there may be a difference between approving violence and understanding it, either as Muste did, or in general. One cannot pretend there is no violence or see it as simply being a human error. It is definitely a part of our experience, and especially of the male experience on this planet, lest we forget..... By that I mean: Have a look at the last 100 years of history, you will see men running about with the bit of power clenched between their jaws parading some of the most farfetched ideas as if these were --quite literally -- the gospel. …
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