Thanks for that John. And I am shockerd as well. A great book I liked was "The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstram", which I am sure you have read. My favorite book of all time is "to Kill a Mockingbird". And yes I am a hard core liberal-lol. Always have been.
Between the ages of 24 and 26 I did almost nothing for two years but read every great mind in the world I could think of to see what they knew and how they understood the world. It changed my life. I had had an epiphany as to just how ignorant I was. I not only didn't know the answers, I didn't even know the questions. I did not know why Plato was a great thinker?
I was not only a child of the 60's, "I joined the counter culture the minute I saw it in the early 60's" and was attending college in the bay area at the time.
I am taking the winter off and traveling across the US to play poker and write a book on the 60's, existentialism, poker and my travels (an existential poker journey)-lol. As almost everyone misunderstands the 60's. Something I have wanted to do for a long time. My two daughters will edit it.
The 60's was the first great existential movement in the history of mankind, so a very very important time.
Theretofore, the entire population of the world, for all time, was "forced/indoctrinaed by their families and society to live life according to a script. Their script, a religous / social dogma of some sort or another.
All we were really saying in the 60's was that every individual has the right to manifest their own destiny regardless of the wishes of family and society. So simple, yet so profound.
The Vietnam war protests, free speech, civil rights, sexual equality, gay rights were all simply outgrowths of the new and very intense thinking of the time. The reason Berkely was at the epicenter.
In the San Fransico Bay area the most widely read author was Herman Hesse.
This Scott Mcclellan bomb shell is really something! |
