tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19429730.post3936398460484992583..comments2023-07-06T19:51:29.939+08:00Comments on Ethereal Eclectic : Drinking the Kool-AidJed Carosaarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775889983099808362noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19429730.post-81512973111507267902008-11-20T01:51:00.000+08:002008-11-20T01:51:00.000+08:00Having grown up in the Bay Area, the nation's neig...Having grown up in the Bay Area, the nation's neighborhood where Jim Jones' People's Temple was headquarterd just before Guana, I have memories about this event. I bristle when people use the expression "Drink the Kool-aid", sometimes even violently upset. I even rejected a suitor in part because he'd used the phrase so lightly. I remember the sorrow and the fear that this event brought, and I am certain that my reaction to that phrase and my mixed feelings about close communities and influential groups is grounded in that. <BR/><BR/>I had a roommate a bit older than us, whose last name was Jones, and she shared about feeling negative energy directed at her growing up because of this.<BR/><BR/>I am sorry for the impact that it had on your communes; that must have been very painful. It just takes one bad apple to spoil the batch, sometimes, doesn't it? It doesn't help that every few years it seems that there is another fringe group where mass suicide is involved, or that our culture is so driven by individualism that it is often a challenge to come together. <BR/><BR/>May your writing reach many and make them think about what they are saying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com