Dear Friend Who is Disillusioned with Society - I understand the
feeling! The right to personal privacy (has been...) one of my
greatest privileges in life. Personally selected associations surely
fill in what would otherwise be a lonely and boring existence for me,
though. I believe that this is the way that it (should have been)
with Howard. Much has been written about him that would indicate
otherwise. That is to say - depictions of his being an eccentric
recluse who held society (and government) in contempt - do not match
the known characteristics of the young Howard Hughes and his father.
He was known to be a modest young man - by no means arrogant or
disrespectful towards people that he met in all walks of life.

Howard was much involved in the heyday epoch of Private Enterprise in
this country (and in the world). His outgoing friendliness was quite
a contrast to that of Lindbergh (for example)....and he was certainly
far removed from the "America First" nazi sympathizer group and with
other powerful ideological-experimenting characters that abounded
during the l930's. He was a deep thinker, and a personal hands-on
doer. The breadth of his involvements inevitably came up against
resentments and jealousies of the worst possible sort, in high places.
They attacked him with incredibly vengeful hatred, as clandestinely
as possible, of course, to protect their own "images of integrity."
And, of course, being a "loner" he was vulnerable to the kind of
entrapments that they prepared for him.

Howard was not a free agent certainly during the last l0 years of his
life - and probably not since l954. I recommend that people
read "The Business of Science" by Dr. Simon Ramo - to gain more
insight into these matters.

Wooldridge's "Mechanical Man - the Basis of Intelligence..." is
another notable work that is an eye-opener. We almost havbe to go
into "science-fiction" mode here .... but in doing so, we are not far
off course in coming to conclusions that only the utterly blind could
miss.

Comments?

I'm glad to be with you! Your Friend, van



-- In howardrobardhughesmemorial@y..., "disillusioned_with_society"
<disillusioned_with_society@y...> wrote:
> Hi. I did belong to the larger HH club about a year ago but I got
> bored as not much was happening. I did correspond with the founder
and
> provided him with some copies of videos that he was seeking. I've
been
> collecting books and memorabilia on Hughes for several years now. I
> read my numerous books over and over, my favorite being " I Caught
> Flies for Howard Hughes" by Ron Kistler. What drew me most to
Hughes
> was his desire for solitude which I so well understand. I enjoy
much
> of the same reclusive lifestyle as he less the wealth and fame!
People
> can and will drive you nuts, no wonder he prefered to be secretive
> especially in his position. Howard made some wonderful
contributions
> and was and is a great legend. Remember solitude does not equal
> loneliness it is an expression of oneself and can be a wonderful
way
> of life. HH did have his reasons to retreat some not all good but m