Magic Bullet

[Joseph Tracy]

> On Sep 12, 2023, at 12:33 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Like September 11th, there is so much weirdness around the JFK
> assassination that it makes for interesting reading/viewing to a) get a
> picture of American crisis management itself in (still-ongoing) crisis, and
> b) get the flavor of those times.
> 
> Eg, reading or watching videos about Nov 1963 brings back memories of black
> & white TV, schooldays, Buster Brown shoes, Vaseline hair oil, cigarettes
> everywhere ("show me your Lark pack"), three TV channels (or four for
> northerners with CBC) those cars people drove back then, Camelot, Life and
> Look magazine, LBJ saying "my fellow Americans" etc etc
> 
> Also, the extensive research available online makes it obvious that there
> were, on those days, and - by very reasonable extension, are at any given
> moment - a whole lot of weird things going on that often go unnoticed,
> waiting for a major event for awareness to crystallize around, whether they
> add to what the particular authors say they add up to or not (one would in
> general prefer they didn't)
> 
> With the JFK assassination as a "hook" or loss leader, conspiracy nuts have
> the opportunity to evolve into at least amateur historians by exercising
> more appreciative fact-gathering and a bit of restraint w/r/t what it all
> means - as Bob Dylan reminded in "Wicked Messenger" but also in "Queen Jane
> approximately"
> 
> "When all of your advisers heave their plastic
> At your feet to convince you of your pain
> Trying to prove that your conclusions should be more drastic
> Won't you come see me, Queen Jane
> Won't you come see me, Queen Jane"
> 
> 
> Whoever Queen Jane might be...
> 
Huh?
> 
> 
> If someone hasn't already, all the conspiracy stuff could be fed into AI
> and really make some chaotic pronunciamentos - "hey Siri, ask chatgpt to
> collate all the 60s assassination stuff and the 9-11 stuff & tie it all
> together"
> 
> Although human authors have made some respectable efforts in that direction.
> 
> Shea and Wilson in the _Illuminatus!_ trilogy did some yeoperson collation
> on numerous conspiracies, spinning them off into memorable images like the
> bumbling British agent "Fission Chips," John Dillinger and several other
> gun-toting malefactors on the grassy knoll, and the "Dealy Lama" on Dealy
> Plaza.
> 
> Pynchon in _Bleeding Edge_ focuses - is "focus" the right word? Maybe
> "includes" is better...includes a lot of the nostalgia aspects, and - less
> frantically/antically than Shea and Wilson (having maybe left his
> "hysterical realism" hat on the rack for this one) - a panoply of
> far-fetched possibilities, presented artistically with humanistic values.
> 
> 
> Still, a computer loaded up with enough memory to not forget any of the
> details...there are so many…
There actually isnt that much mystery to the core story of who and what was lost, who killed the President and why,  and how the power of that entity has grown and expanded .
> 
> That still wouldn't solve the problem of what to do about it, would it?
Easier though to work from accurate history than faith in the holiness of the empire.  Also I like the company of those who understand what happened to Kennedy and his brother and many others and suggest that we really don't need an international secret police with licenses to kill, bribe and intimidate or an international war making machine to feed the military industrial complex. 
> 
> As in the Luddite essay, how to countermand the imperatives of "various
> psychopaths with power - including the power to do something about it" -
> 
> On Christmas Eve, they shall be visited by 3 ghosts?
> 
> Stephen Daedalus's smithy?
> 
> Deus ex machina?
> 
> Solvitur ambulando?
> 
> Solve et coagula?
> 
> Chop wood & carry water?
> 
> Or was it Burbage in "Shakespeare in Love": "things will work out - they
> always do"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I got paywalled at Vanity Fair - did the retired agent mention what he did
> with the extra bullet?
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2023, 10:47 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Howdy
>> 
>> I can't be the only person fascinated by this
>> 
>> 
>> https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/new-jfk-assassination-revelation-upend-lone-gunman
>> 
>> In a new book, former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, largely silent for
>> 60 years, says he found a bullet in Kennedy’s limo. A sometime presidential
>> historian explains why that’s so significant, if true.
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