tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774131.post6825178788042604084..comments2023-06-24T11:57:48.459-04:00Comments on larrylivermore.com: "Moral Reasons" Or Just Plain Nuts?Larry Livermorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11948659387575597910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774131.post-66236307330883554422007-10-17T03:16:00.000-04:002007-10-17T03:16:00.000-04:00I never met Cathy Wilkerson, it's true, but I met ...I never met Cathy Wilkerson, it's true, but I met others who supported or, as in the case of Diana Oughton, became part of the Weather Underground. I was broadly sympathetic toward SDS and even Weatherman at first, until the drugs wore off (hey, they didn't call us Student Dope Smokers for nothing). <BR/><BR/>Okay, cheap shot there, but drugs certainly did play a large part in making the intolerable and totalitarian seem downright reasonable. And yes, I do believe there's barely a dime's worth of difference between the fascists of the right and the totalitarians of the left, at least not once you get beyond hairstyles and rhetoric.<BR/><BR/>You claim to be presenting "other ways of perceiving the world," but the only viewpoint I've ever seen you present is a lionization of what was essentially a very sick and twisted movement, one that in a handful of years degenerated from the laudable (if perhaps not very realistic) ideals of universal peace and love to the gratuitous planting of bombs and shooting of cops. If there had been some coherent purpose to it all, it might - barely - have been justifiable in some contexts, but it wasn't; it was a bunch of crazy hippies jacked up on LSD and playing at revolution with real people's lives at stake. I was there, pal; you came late to the party and have been trying to rewrite history ever since.Larry Livermorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11948659387575597910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774131.post-38303472953759862332007-10-16T19:11:00.000-04:002007-10-16T19:11:00.000-04:00You know, usually I ignore blogs like yours that t...You know, usually I ignore blogs like yours that tend towards pontification from some place in the webosphere, but I couldn't ignore your misrepresentation of my review of Cathy Wilkerson's book. My intent (and Cathy's I believe) is to help young people understand that there are no simple answers, but there are other ways of perceiving the world than those presented by the powers that be. She says as much in her book and I try to represent that in my writings and presentations. You, on the other hand, seem to have taken a raod well trod by the so-called commentators of the right. in other words, you don't argue content but choose instead to malign a person's (whom you do not know and have never even met) integrity and intelligence by suggesting that they took too many drugs or are blind followers of men you consider "fascist." That isn't intelligent argument, Larry, that's lazy and dishonest.jronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15172075883673700355noreply@blogger.com