Comment on A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to?
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 week agoI disagreed with it at the time and do again now… there’s no grand conspiracy; people are just depressingly predictable in how they respond to economic and cultural pressures. Some people recognize the trends and attempt to ride them or even control them (or stop them), but with a few notable exceptions, history tends to just roll on regardless — which can look to some as if there must be some cabal of puppet masters calling the shots.
ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Sorry, do you mean you disagreed with what JFK was saying, that you didn’t believe him?
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I believe his observations were mostly correct, but wouldn’t tie it as closely to a “group” as he did.
ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
That’s amazing to me, that you were there to hear him and remember it. He’s one politician I would have loved to listen to firsthand. He seemed to say a lot of very controversial things, like when he spoke out against religious involvement in politics and named the religious groups very specifically… he was either really dumb or very brave… I imagine the latter. So do you think in this case he was maybe a bit too paranoid, or just mistaken?
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I think he, personally, had made a lot of enemies because of how he spoke, and then conflated that with more general and organized resistance to his ideas instead of it being reactionary responses so his delivery.
People are generally nowhere near as organized as we give them credit for.