I remember in my school days I came across quite eminent Julius Ceasor's play in which Mark Antonio's powerful oratory so effectively swayed the people against the Ceasor's assailants and eventually avenged him. But thats all the fiction stuff but what we have here is as real as anything after all we are talking about nearly thousand lives polished off within a day. We can look it at two ways;one being the most impetuous one that is to put it on the moral grounds and biasing it as a sin or righteous act ( those prejudiced to God's delusion) and the other one which I looked upon as not being judgemental but to ponder on the charisma of a man who just by his words so cogently made 914 people to end their lives in a world where we beat up our a**es to get even a small job done from even our associates.
If you hear the man out he's not any of those big-guns out there, just a common revolutionary determined in what he believes ,knows what to do and wary of people expecting from him the direction to follow up on. His speech ,full of simplicity but yet so rabble-rousing that masses instantly aligned with him knowing of the fact that its just not their life but more importantly their family's lives that is called for. More than 900 Americans died in a South American jungle upon the orders of Rev. Jim Jones, who had tried to create a socialist paradise. Thirty-three people who began that day in Jonestown escaped with their lives.
What is left of Jonestown today? Nothing. The settlement has disappeared, the buildings dismantled and carried away by native Indians. Jungle weeds and trees have overgrown the area again. The only notable relic left to be found are the remains of one small rusting garden tractor. What persists is simply silence.
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