Homage to Studs Terkel: What is it today to be a left winger? In large part is to merely to wish we actually had a government for the people by the people of the people, and to be fully aware we DO NOT even remotely have such.
And to believe the american public is, in the main, just a manipulated herd. Which brings me to Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel was a Great Man.
Studs, his mind still vitally electric and full of memory and wit and ideas at 95 , on the Democracy NOW program in 2007, said he nows calls The U.S.A. the United States of Alzheimer
He went further to say he could not see any real difference between the present democratic party and republican party.
He slashed at John Kerry for his disowning "the young Kerry" anti-Vietnam ways, and growing wings of a Hawk.
Studs Terkel, in his last memoir, published in 2007
wrote he wished his epitaph to read "Curiousity Never Killed This Cat"
He saw america as in a continuous decline in desire for knowledge/truth, that they had almost become proud of their Ignorance.
i would say that a key criteria of being a Leftist, is to be always, alive, curious and challenging THE GROUP think.
His son, on Stud's recent death, said he died peacefully while at sleep, just as Studs had hoped his death would occur.
Their are fewer and fewer and fewer Studs Terkels in this world.
We are a dying entity. Max |
