Hitch loves you

Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Wed Jan 2 12:00:46 PST 2002


Hitch loves you

Christopher Rhoades =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=FFkema?= <crdbronx at erols.com> Subject: Subject: Re:

Couldn't agree more with Nathan --


> I think the mindless sloganeering
> sustituting for concrete analysis of the present sitution after S11 was one
> of the most depressing things I have experienced in years. We lost the
> debate on the war and even more on the peace, because the public analysis of
> the "peace movement" was so disconnected from the reality experienced by the
> general population that they tuned it out. The media may have contributed
> with their press blackouts, but that was true in many past peace movements
> and the message got out on the streets.
>

Just as well that so disconnected and vacuous a message didn't get out. The concept of "cultural lag" was invented to account for much what the peacenik left has tried to present as "thought." Vietnam was a long time ago.

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

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CB: I'm trying to see whether Christopher and Nathan have put out a connected , substantive , peace message somewhere. Also, I wonder if you two would have been saying the same thing at the beginning of the Viet Nam anti-war movement, when all that was being said was also disconnected from the general population.

And finally, why don't you just start a peace movement that is better, since you imply you are connected to the general population, and are"thinking" and know something better than the current organizers



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