Anson Guthrie was born in 1970. The novel was published in 1993. He mentions successive political generations:
Stalin;
Mao and Castro;
the Renewal;
the Avantists.
I was at University in 1970. The handful of monomaniacal Maoists unwittingly performed a useful task for the establishment. Most people agreed that the Maoists were mad, then stopped thinking about economics or politics. I focused on spiritual and philosophical questions, arguing that it was necessary to change self, not society. Why could I not have seen then that it was possible to address both issues simultaneously?
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I can't make out the date or the smaller text of the front page of this newspaper you chose for an illustration. But I don't think it was printed in 1970 because the political crisis which eventually forced Richard Nixon to resign as U.S President was in 1974, NOT 1970.
Sean
Sean,
You are right. I googled for newspapers in the 1970s, not in 1970. This is a dramatic one, though, showing a buildup of a crisis in that decade.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Richard Nixon was a man of many parts, some of them great. But he was destroyed by his paranoia. Tragic!
Sean
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