Comments on: John, John, and John…into the Boomer mystic, (part 1)… http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/ Think - it ain't illegal yet... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:32:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jeff http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-9645 jeff Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:35:00 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/#comment-9645 Jim, Even this evil, insidious tool of the Right mourns Lennon's passing and thinks about it every Dec 8. Left or right, we still all listen to the same music, and all are affected. Jeff Jim,

Even this evil, insidious tool of the Right mourns Lennon’s passing and thinks about it every Dec 8. Left or right, we still all listen to the same music, and all are affected.

Jeff

]]> By: Hamishm http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-9621 Hamishm Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:35:16 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/#comment-9621 Well done Jim, part 2 will be just as good. I am on the cusp of Boomerhood and have 2 regrets. 1) If I was going to be in it why not right in it? How fabulous to be 17 when the good music was happening not having to wait until 1977 to start listening properly. 2) No time machine to go back and stop Chapman being born. I was working in a Meat packer plant when Lennon was shot and remember how it affected my fellow workers. Guys who said that if they ever met Chapman they would "cut his balls off". Ordinary working guys who knew that something more than a person getting killed had happened. Well done Jim, part 2 will be just as good.
I am on the cusp of Boomerhood and have 2 regrets. 1) If I was going to be in it why not right in it? How fabulous to be 17 when the good music was happening not having to wait until 1977 to start listening properly. 2) No time machine to go back and stop Chapman being born.
I was working in a Meat packer plant when Lennon was shot and remember how it affected my fellow workers. Guys who said that if they ever met Chapman they would “cut his balls off”. Ordinary working guys who knew that something more than a person getting killed had happened.

]]> By: Dr. Denny http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-9600 Dr. Denny Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:24:57 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/#comment-9600 Amen, Jim. Amen. Thanks. Amen, Jim. Amen. Thanks.

]]> By: elaine http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-9589 elaine Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:31:35 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/#comment-9589 Chi is one of the great truths as yet to be fully understood by the West. Having seen it in action it is awesome! I disbelieved its existence once... In many ways Jim (when you write) you remind me of my Dad. I do empathize because I was on the receiving end of his pain. He, however, was more accepting of the selfish drives and desires of human nature. He still mourns the fracturing of Britain... Chi is one of the great truths as yet to be fully understood by the West. Having seen it in action it is awesome! I disbelieved its existence once…

In many ways Jim (when you write) you remind me of my Dad. I do empathize because I was on the receiving end of his pain.

He, however, was more accepting of the selfish drives and desires of human nature.

He still mourns the fracturing of Britain…

]]> By: Dr. Slammy http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-9588 Dr. Slammy Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:21:43 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/#comment-9588 I remember when Lennon was killed, and I remember your reaction. I didn't fully grasp it then because there had been nothing in my experience that remotely paralleled yours. I once noted that my generation had never been forced to confront any kind of collective crisis, like Vietnam, and we're too fragmented to share in anything like the Summer of Love. So it was alien to me - the closest I've ever come were the deaths of Freddie Mercury and Kurt Cobain, which were entirely different animals. But while I can't fully empathize, I do see it, clearly, from the outside. I'll look forward to part 2. I remember when Lennon was killed, and I remember your reaction. I didn’t fully grasp it then because there had been nothing in my experience that remotely paralleled yours. I once noted that my generation had never been forced to confront any kind of collective crisis, like Vietnam, and we’re too fragmented to share in anything like the Summer of Love. So it was alien to me – the closest I’ve ever come were the deaths of Freddie Mercury and Kurt Cobain, which were entirely different animals.

But while I can’t fully empathize, I do see it, clearly, from the outside. I’ll look forward to part 2.

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]]> By: eric http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-9579 eric Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:28:52 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/12/06/john-john-and-johninto-the-boomer-mystic-part-1/#comment-9579 well said. well said.

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