Monthly Archives: November 2013

Barry’s Blog # 76: John F. Kennedy and America’s Obsession with Innocence, Part Four of Four

Sing sorrow, sorrow, but good win out in the end. – Aeschylus As a mythologist (and sharing our common curiosity about these things), I felt responsible to watch several 2013 documentaries and read much of what passed for journalism on … Continue reading

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Barry’s Blog # 75: John F. Kennedy and America’s Obsession with Innocence, Part Three of Four

Wow! I never realized that Kennedy and Vietnam was to your generation what Princess Diana and 9/11 is to ours. – A thirty-something The Dying God (1) He was known in Babylon as Tammuz, in Egypt as Osiris and Serapis, in … Continue reading

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Barry’s Blog # 74: John F. Kennedy and America’s Obsession with Innocence, Part Two of Four

I shouted out, “Who killed the Kennedys?” When after all it was you and me.  – Mick Jagger & Keith Richards Part Two – Myth Making Those lines make perfect poetic sense, but what do they really mean? Were the Kennedys … Continue reading

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Barry’s Blog # 73: John F. Kennedy and America’s Obsession with Innocence, Part One of Four

If anyone’s going to kill me, it should happen now. – John F. Kennedy, 1962 Assassinations, murder – and war, to – begin this way. This revolution is not just outside us in the streets and jails and detention homes … Continue reading

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