If you were to ask someone what came to mind when thinking of JFK, what is the first thing that you would hear (or read in a text)? My guess is that it would be his assassination. Partly because it was devastating at the time and as humans, we tend to over marginalize bad or negative events in our minds. Call it the fear impulse, which is maybe stronger than the opposite lean but I am not quite convinced. We get stimulated by to what we give our attention, our synapses fire and neurons are developed this way. But neurons are dying and being re-devloped all of the time. Which means we can breathe easier when it comes to fear I suppose & consider where we are directing our eyes and ears.
Anyways, ramble but Kennedy did very many great things and the grief over his death had most to do with the kind of person he was from what I have learned. He had some indiscretions and flaws I suppose, but he ignited something in a body of people across a land that has not quite been done since.
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