« The Daffy Duck Test for 2012 Voting | Main | Best Reality TV Dialogue »
January 31, 2012
Origins: Make Love Not War
The slogan we thought of first was the old Fellowship of Reconciliation [the interfaith peace movement founded in 1915] slogan 'Make Peace, Not War' but it seemed too tame for the 60s. Several of us together at Solidarity Bookshop - myself, Franklin, Bernard Marszalek and Tor Faegre - thought about this and what we came up with finally was 'Make Love, Not War'. The button was printed at a shop above Krocks & Brentano's Bookstore on Wabash Avenue.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 31, 2012 4:00 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Thus blazing the trail for gays in the military.
Posted by: tim at February 1, 2012 6:20 AM
Not only that, but has anyone noticed how clothing for girls is decorated with "peace" symbols. My daughter-in-law buys stuff all the time for my 8-year old granddaughter that has peace symbols on it, and I can't stand it. And it's on everything: shoes, little purses, tee shirts and hoodies, even nightgowns and underpants. ARRRGGGHHH!
Posted by: Deborah at February 1, 2012 7:00 AM
“My daughter-in-law buys stuff all the time for my 8-year old granddaughter…and I can't stand it.”
Which may a reason she does it, Deborah.
The one thing you can control is teaching your granddaughter that peace is only possible through superior firepower. Just ‘age appropriate’ the message.
Thus, you’ll drive your daughter -in -law crazy. Win, win.
Posted by: tim at February 1, 2012 12:30 PM
Sorry---failed to make my point, Tim. My daughter-in-law is utterly OBLIVIOUS to the meaning of the "peace" symbol. She honestly has no idea ... it's no different to her than Hello Kitty. And I don't have enough lifetime left to make her smarter.
Posted by: Deborah at February 1, 2012 12:54 PM
I remember the photo Gerard ran several months ago, featuring a young girl firing an automatic weapon while wearing a "peace" hoodie.
Posted by: rickl at February 1, 2012 4:03 PM
I heard Alan King, the comic, say "make love not war?? In WWII we did both."
Regarding the "peace" symbol (actually from the semaphore for N and D -- nuclear disarmament:
I find the Nuclear Disarmament symbol as something used by people who were in cahoots with those who were trying to kill me.
"Peace"/"anti-war" protesters in the US, provided aid and comfort to the enemy, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, who were (for at least a couple of years) trying to kill me.
Whether the aid and comfort was intentional or not is not important.
I equate the peace symbol with the confederate flag and the nazi swastika (you can throw in the hammer and sickle, too). All emblems of things that really aren't good or cool.
Posted by: OldFert at February 1, 2012 5:42 PM
Considering that over 25 million people have died of AIDS since the 1960s which is more than died on both sides of the Vietnam War, the Cambodian Killing Fields and the Nazi Holocost combined, I think making war actually turned out to make more sense, since it killed fewer people and the ones it killed the most were people trying to kill us
...although if you see the Jonestown Suicide Cult as your favorite religion like Jane Fonda said she did you might disagree of course.
Posted by: Jim in Texas at February 23, 2012 3:29 AM