- 03 Apr 2020 19:21
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JFK was assassinated in November, 1963. The following quote by Trappist monk Thomas Merton was made in 1962:
"I think he (JFK) cannot fully measure up to the magnitude of his task and lacks creative imagination and the deeper kind of sensivity that is needed. Too much the Time and Life mentality, than which I can imagine nothing further, in reality, from, say, Lincoln. What is needed is really not shrewdness or craft, but what politicians don’t have: depth, humanity and a certain totality of self forgetfulness and compassion, not just for individuals but for man as a whole: a deeper kind of dedication. Maybe Kennedy will break through into that someday by miracle...…... But such people are before long marked out for assassination."
"I think he (JFK) cannot fully measure up to the magnitude of his task and lacks creative imagination and the deeper kind of sensivity that is needed. Too much the Time and Life mentality, than which I can imagine nothing further, in reality, from, say, Lincoln. What is needed is really not shrewdness or craft, but what politicians don’t have: depth, humanity and a certain totality of self forgetfulness and compassion, not just for individuals but for man as a whole: a deeper kind of dedication. Maybe Kennedy will break through into that someday by miracle...…... But such people are before long marked out for assassination."
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897