Letters to the Editor
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Once again...they missed the point
Having read Robert Marshall's ill-concieved, poorly researched article one can only throw your hands up and smile. It's the same argument over and over and it shows nothing. Relying on Amy Wallace for something even close to factual is a dubious bet at best and even more so for the ever pedantic and anal Richard Jennings. Believe me, for those who were there, and are there, the mantra is always the same with regards to these two..."That's not the way it happened." No one outside of the situation who has just come upon it seems to want to be bothered to consider that maybe the Nagual Carlos Castaneda told people to cut their family ties because the parents were either abusive or totally absent at best or that maybe Amy and Richard were looking at the scene through limited eyes or...the list goes on. It was, and is, a very real phenomenon, more real than anything you will ever experience in this so called waking life. But I am sure many will be obliged, and relieved, to believe that there are no such things a flyers or the second attention. What a relief, eh? Back to a life of complaining and playing the victim and watching American Idol...or a life of reasonable fascimile.(I know, I know, you love your kids and are somewhat happy...or so you tell yourself). It's interesting to watch as the masses struggle to try and understand the unknown...and again...most unfortunately, miss the point. In all fairness, it's not an easy path...but one that I won't ever give up as I have seen too much to let meager rational doubts stop me. For the record, he never told her to get a job at McDonald's, he told her she had never had a real job or consequently, any real empathy for anyone other than her self and that, half jokingly, he suggested she get a "real" job to learn some humility and compassion, not the overbearing self-pity she had for herself. True dat...