so let us begin anew

 

Under a movie review in The Guardian a Reader Comment says of President John F. Kennedy,

-------- He did have some greatness, but he was very very flawed.  His image was greater than the substance.  He benefitted from the times he lived in, that feeling of euphoria that ran through the early 60s, the sense that anything was possible. ------------------

Was there a sense, in the early 1960s, that "anything was possible"?

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________ I had been thinking about two things:

connection

and

deception.

Connection, because learning about, or meditating upon, one subject may lead a person to another subject.

And Deception, because sometimes we can be going along thinking things are one way, and then find out later that they were a different way.

        In one of Jane Austen's novels, the main character thinks she knows The Way Things Are, and further along in the story she (and we, the readers) are shown the true situation, which is different from the original picture.  A metaphorical "curtain" is drawn back to reveal the truth.

Connection -- I became interested in Jerry Hall's life-and-art observations and stories, because she became Mick Jagger's girlfriend and partner, and since I like the Rolling Stones' music, I noticed when there was a magazine article about her.  That was how I came to notice her, and the stories she recounted.

        (If I had been a more informed student of fashion, I would have known who she was before my introduction to the Stones.)

Interest in one thing may connect you to something else you may be interested in.  Then that might lead to another connection and Journey Of Study.  A series of connected topics may create a path...

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And back to Kennedy -- was the image of him and his presidency greater than the substance?  Maybe that's true for a lot of people.  Or not.

        Did JFK benefit from "The Times" he lived in?

        Do we all benefit from the times in which we live?  (Would people look at us differently if this were 1744, instead of 2022?)

that feeling of euphoria

the sense that anything was possible

the early '60s

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