Red Pill Day...
May. 4th, 2020 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thetimesinkI didn't have a title that worked for today, primarily because May the 4th is now associated with the Star Wars movies...
...but in a not-so-distant galaxy, and all too close to home for a young college student working with new ideologies and with people NotFromTheMainland (see Siderea's "Archipelago of Weird"), May 4th was a watershed moment:
I was a freshman. ...on a college campus with protests (the Vietnam War had just been expanded into Cambodia). ...and from a parochial, conservative upbringing. ...and suddenly, four students from another state college in another small town were dead.
Red Pill or Blue Pill? That metaphor wouldn't come into vogue until sometime later; but seeing it today, in two articles from Rolling Stone, from two musicians who were there dialed in the title.
The "Police Riot" at the Chicago Democratic Convention occurred a year before, but the rhetoric involved... Well, see the above about living at home (finishing high school).
People's Park would occur a year later; that one sticks with me, as a guy I graduated with in '68 took a piece of buckshot when he went to his apartment's balcony to see what the noise was.
Politicians, Ideologies, Decisions...
Yes, I'm in a funk (and yes, I'm working on breaking it).
...but in a not-so-distant galaxy, and all too close to home for a young college student working with new ideologies and with people NotFromTheMainland (see Siderea's "Archipelago of Weird"), May 4th was a watershed moment:
I was a freshman. ...on a college campus with protests (the Vietnam War had just been expanded into Cambodia). ...and from a parochial, conservative upbringing. ...and suddenly, four students from another state college in another small town were dead.
Red Pill or Blue Pill? That metaphor wouldn't come into vogue until sometime later; but seeing it today, in two articles from Rolling Stone, from two musicians who were there dialed in the title.
The "Police Riot" at the Chicago Democratic Convention occurred a year before, but the rhetoric involved... Well, see the above about living at home (finishing high school).
People's Park would occur a year later; that one sticks with me, as a guy I graduated with in '68 took a piece of buckshot when he went to his apartment's balcony to see what the noise was.
Politicians, Ideologies, Decisions...
Yes, I'm in a funk (and yes, I'm working on breaking it).
