Missing JFK [View All]

[ramapo]

Here are some thoughts from James Kunstler, author of Geography of Nowhere and much more, on the 41st anniversary of JFK's assassination.
I was in third grade and remember the day as vividly (maybe more so) as yesterday. Kunstler summarizes what we've lost.

"...My generation never got over the death of President Kennedy. It changed everything. It knocked the legs out of our very steady world. Everything that came after it was an anticlimax, even the fantastic carnage of 9/11. Every president since then has been something of a disappointment, including JFK's most self-conscious protege, Bill Clinton...."

"What we lost in Kennedy was someone who could intelligently express a national sense of purpose unburdened by the sordid desire of individuals to have more ..."

"The sad and startling truth is that Kennedy's time really was Camelot for the United States. Unlike Ronald Reagan's completely phony Morning in America, Kennedy's abbreviated term was the last time we were lean, hopeful, and confident as a nation. Everything since then has been a spree of one kind or another... I miss John F. Kennedy more than I can say."

I couldn't agree more. It's been downhill ever since Nov. 22 1963.

Here's a link to the rest of today's entry in Kunstler's "Clusterfuck
Nation Chronicles". I recommend reading his commentary and his books on the suburban/urban crisis facing us today.

http://www.kunstler.com/mags_diary12.html