I will just digress a little bit, but hang with me. I flipped the channel and came across the end of a Murdoch Mystery episode. I had seen it before and was gobsmacked at the writer who scripted it a couple of years ago. It was season 13, Episode 11, almost at the end. It was re the advances in communication in the early 1900’s. “The fut…
I will just digress a little bit, but hang with me. I flipped the channel and came across the end of a Murdoch Mystery episode. I had seen it before and was gobsmacked at the writer who scripted it a couple of years ago. It was season 13, Episode 11, almost at the end. It was re the advances in communication in the early 1900’s. “The future is unknown, but indicators abound as to what it might become. Wireless communication portends the instantaneous dissemination of knowledge from all parts of the world. Knowledge will end prejudice, demagogues will no longer flourish, lies and misinformation will disappear. The matters and crises that shake us all will be dealt with intelligently and plausibly. All of humanity will be able to embrace their better selves. At the end of the 20th century and beyond, truth and knowledge will prevail.”
Well, and then came Rupert and the cult to take the place of Hearst and all that came before. An awesome future has been stolen and we are left in the dark ages - again.
The future was stolen the minute the government decided to allow private ownership of radio stations. Everything turned out the opposite of what that guy wrote.
From what was possible to the opposite of what was possible. You are right, I remember my b-I-l loving the heinous Rush. I heard him once at a gas station when I couldn’t get away fast enough. He made racism and greed popular with people I once had respect for. The “tea party” finished many for me and then along came chump. When all repubs climbed on board, our world flipped upside down. They are the thieves of our future. BTW, the writers of that show (Canadian) are a weird lot. Hope all writers aren’t suffering the slings and arrows that they do here.
Yes, now anyone can say what ever he wants and it's deemed truth merely by being spoken. Objective truth has been made "small enough to drown it in a bathtub." Thus Spake JARL (just another republican liar)
Love JARL, and reference to Grover. Italian writer Umberto Eco nailed it too. “Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when once they only spoke at a bar after having a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced. Now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.”
I will just digress a little bit, but hang with me. I flipped the channel and came across the end of a Murdoch Mystery episode. I had seen it before and was gobsmacked at the writer who scripted it a couple of years ago. It was season 13, Episode 11, almost at the end. It was re the advances in communication in the early 1900’s. “The future is unknown, but indicators abound as to what it might become. Wireless communication portends the instantaneous dissemination of knowledge from all parts of the world. Knowledge will end prejudice, demagogues will no longer flourish, lies and misinformation will disappear. The matters and crises that shake us all will be dealt with intelligently and plausibly. All of humanity will be able to embrace their better selves. At the end of the 20th century and beyond, truth and knowledge will prevail.”
Well, and then came Rupert and the cult to take the place of Hearst and all that came before. An awesome future has been stolen and we are left in the dark ages - again.
The future was stolen the minute the government decided to allow private ownership of radio stations. Everything turned out the opposite of what that guy wrote.
From what was possible to the opposite of what was possible. You are right, I remember my b-I-l loving the heinous Rush. I heard him once at a gas station when I couldn’t get away fast enough. He made racism and greed popular with people I once had respect for. The “tea party” finished many for me and then along came chump. When all repubs climbed on board, our world flipped upside down. They are the thieves of our future. BTW, the writers of that show (Canadian) are a weird lot. Hope all writers aren’t suffering the slings and arrows that they do here.
Yes, now anyone can say what ever he wants and it's deemed truth merely by being spoken. Objective truth has been made "small enough to drown it in a bathtub." Thus Spake JARL (just another republican liar)
Love JARL, and reference to Grover. Italian writer Umberto Eco nailed it too. “Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when once they only spoke at a bar after having a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced. Now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.”
so true!
Eco is correct, and I acknowledge I'm out of my depth often enough to be at least in the rear guard of the invasion.
Nah, you are the antidote