[lbo-talk] Good Show

[Chuck Grimes]

Got around to listening to Behind the News this morning. The program
featured Penny Lewis on the 1960s movements, their mythological composition 
and their actual composition...which was  a more complex
mix of class than has become the common history narrative. And a lot
more. It's worth the few minutes to listen.

I got sick of trying to explain some of this back in the 1980s when it 
seemed the mythological rendition became orthodox...well so fuck it.

The other part was on the disintegration of the military -- another 
component that's been trivialized as a drug and social adjustment problem.
A story that blamed the symptoms as usual. The other part which wasn't
covered was the idea that vets coming home got spit on. Maybe somewhere but 
not with anybody I knew. I thought at the time that was
a Nixon spin that has become orthodox and needs a debunk because it
was simultaneous with the disintegration and was constructed to off set
the idea that you could get out or walk away and get to safety --- off set 
the idea that resistance was winning.

 The process of disintegration is something that needs to be studied in a 
deep sense because I suspect it is near universally the case if a war lasts 
too long.

CG