I'm here in
Loreto right now, enjoying the sun (cloudy right now), the warm temps, and as you'all put it, degrading of Loreto. I'm looking right now for someone
who lives here, makes a living here, been here for over 30 years that hates Loreto Bay as much as you guys do. Past year, to now, no luck yet. Sorry
Nomads. I'm referring to the non nomads of Loreto. I know there must be someone out there. Someone who was fired for some reason, someone who asked
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Originally posted by lencho
 --Larry [/quote I believe the reference would go back to the Jim Jones and his lemmings mass suicide in Guyana They spiked the cool - aide |
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Originally posted by Bajalero
The first "cool aid" reference was made in Tom Wolff's novel, The Electric Cool aid Acid Test, in 1968. Wolff chronicled the escapades of novelist Ken Kesey and his "band of merry pranksters" as they traveled the country in a day glo painted school bus. They all drank cool aid laced with LSD. The challenge was to survive the experience and have fun while getting crazy on acid. In this case the "trip" went to wherever the acid took them.....they followed the acid. Guyana is indeed the incident people think of when using the "cool aid" reference. The reference is used when masses follow a cult, religious, political megalomaniac, and even crooked scammers blindly; without doubt or question. In the Jim Jones tragedy, they followed his fanatic ideas to their ultimate conclusion in 1978; death. I remember when he started his "Peoples' Temple" in San Francisco. It was a quasi-Christian church that emphasized social revolution. His movement had the blessings of the city politicos and social leaders. It was multi-racial and very politically correct for its time and place. At the time, Jones was doing a lot of good for the poor and underprivileged, and he was very savvy at manipulating the media. My girlfriend at the time was a radio newscaster/director. She interviewed him and came away very impressed, as did everyone at the time. Although he was always a charismatic leader, his fanaticism didn't start to show up until a couple of years later and he reestablished the Peoples' Temple in Guyana. Like any fanatical leader, the craziness surfaced incrementally. People who don't have a strong sense of identity, who are seeking spiritually or are trying to grasp some sense of belonging are the most vulnerable. They find comfort and affirmation in a leader who, for them, seems to have all the answers. They are led, step by step, to extreme devotion. They will literally follow him anywhere. So today, we see the reference to "drinking the cool aid" used to describe any group who has seemingly followed a leader without regard to rational thought. I have seen it used to describe the Evangelical Christian Movement and their support, as a block, for George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq. Actually, Carl Rove was the mastermind for that manipulation by pandering to their core beliefs, but to them, W. is the Messiah on earth. When I first saw a brochure for The Loreto Bay Project, I thought they were sincere in their goal to establish a Green development in a beautiful setting. So I toured Baja with one of my main objectives being, to check out the sight. I took one look at the lines in the sand and the high pressure sales style and instantly decided that it was not for me. I was absolutely awestruck with the beauty of Nopolo Bay and was overwhelmed with sadness that it would never be the same. I am still not convinced that it is impossible to pull off or that the developers are not sincere in their stated intent. But I did not drink the cool aid. [Edited on 8-5-2007 by toneart] |
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Originally posted by lencho
--Larry |