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Ken Burns & Lynn Novick's Documentary of the Viet Nam War
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The Buddhist Catholic thing was a major stunner for me. Didn't remember that part at all.
I did remember Madam Nhu being a total bitch . . . . The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
 
I had no clue that a catholic individual/motivations/actions was the impetus behind the immolation of the buddhist monks.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
And the minority Catholic group running the country and literally telling the Buddhist majority to go fuck themselves.
Jeez, what a cluster fuck. Am I correct French Catholic missionaries during their colonial era was the root of that ?? The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
Jesus fucking Christ, I don't remember all the coups in South Vietnam before Nguyen Van Thieu got in. Weird what registered and what didn't when I was a kid.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
3 is some surreal shit. Dancing in the napalm flames. Morley is a commie. And all the time they knew it wouldn't work but kept playing the losing game.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
Now you all have me more curious to watch. I've been avoiding it. Having lived through it, my feeling is please - can we just move on?
The country has never "moved on." Between the fracturing during the Civil Rights movements and the Vietnam Protest movement there has grown a consistent wedge between the "everything-is-just-fine-why-can't-you-leave-it-alone" and the "everything-sucks-you-scumbags" sides. The country has never been the same.
(September 20, 2017 at 12:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The country has never "moved on." Between the fracturing during the Civil Rights movements and the Vietnam Protest movement there has grown a consistent wedge between the "everything-is-just-fine-why-can't-you-leave-it-alone" and the "everything-sucks-you-scumbags" sides. The country has never been the same. That's the extremes, certainly. The great unwashed really don't give a fuck, as ever. |
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