...Which made me wonder how I have an emotional attachment to a President that died 11 years before I was born.
I think that the Kennedy story has become a piece of the American myth of the 20h century. By "myth" I don't mean fiction; I mean it's become a part of the American story that has seeped and cemented itself into our cultural awareness. It's part of our cultural intellectual and emotional vocabulary. And it's at this point that I become inarticulate about that sense. Kennedy was shot the year before I was born. But his family has loomed large on the political landscape for as long as I've lived. They've been present in one fashion or another for a lot of the causes that I care about, so I think that's one piece of the puzzle that creates some sympathy.
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Date: Tue, Aug. 26th, 2008 03:40 pm (UTC)I think that the Kennedy story has become a piece of the American myth of the 20h century. By "myth" I don't mean fiction; I mean it's become a part of the American story that has seeped and cemented itself into our cultural awareness. It's part of our cultural intellectual and emotional vocabulary. And it's at this point that I become inarticulate about that sense. Kennedy was shot the year before I was born. But his family has loomed large on the political landscape for as long as I've lived. They've been present in one fashion or another for a lot of the causes that I care about, so I think that's one piece of the puzzle that creates some sympathy.