*I’m only surprised that it isn’t the pinkos at PBS airing this*
NPR to the rescue. https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668249279/40-years-later-jonestown-offers-a-lesson-in-demagoguery
Orange Man Bad
In the NPR interview: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668249279/40-years-later-jonestown-offers-a-lesson-in-demagoguery
GUINN: The things I’ve learned writing this book scare the hell out of me in terms of today’s America. And as social media continues to expand, more and more people are getting unfiltered information that they can believe or not to believe. And we’re entering a time in in our history, I think, where a lot of people think the truth doesn’t matter because the truth is always going to be just what’s convenient for them to believe.
The facts don’t matter anymore. Leadership is less based on some sort of comprehensive plan to bring everyone together but instead people want to gain control and gain power in office by splitting up the country and having just enough margin on their side to get sufficient votes to win. And once people are in power, instead of using it positively, it’s used instead to try to emphasize their ties with their followers and to show disdain, and even in some cases outright try to destroy, anybody who disagrees with them.
Jim Jones epitomizes the worst that can happen when we let one person dictate what we hear, what we believe that, anybody opposed to him must be opposed to us. This is what we’re becoming. We can only change that if we learn from the past and try to apply it to today. So yes, the things I’ve learned writing this book scare the hell out of me.
true they have covered it, but not this new Sundance 4-part documentary of revisionist history as they did for the Black Panthers, SLA, Weather Underground, and others
but her report is on the same author (who’s book came out in 2017). I’ll check in on it later, off to the office
Houston Comical ran a SF piece recently as well kissing up to Jones’ opposition to Capitalism and efforts to help the underclass. Why didn’t they take this stance when Charles Manson died? He didn’t personally kill anyone and he gave a support system to youth who’d been cast out by family and society.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sfhistory/article/jim-jones-peoples-temple-sf-oakland-13385679.php
Near the end the author (who’s also done a Manson book which puts him in the exploitive death cult novelist camp) says he’s scared about yhe modern times. He doesn’t mention Trump but that’s the implication in several of tge articles.
Yet Obama said perception is truth. And there’s still that pesky COMMUNISM they don’t want to discuss. They are too blown away by the promise that they don’t look at the 100,000,000 dead and say maybe it isn’t all they say it is.