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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Posted
9:15 AM
by freelance radical
. . LONGING It often seems to me, that there's a lot of people and organizations around today, that are trying to recapture the revolutionary excitement of the 60's. Which is quite impossible, of course, since this is a new millennium and a whole new era. Rolling Stone's April issue has an article about our "evil" government, that is accompanied by a drawing of the "evil" members of that "evil" government watching our every move on giant screens reminiscent of an old movie set. Elsewhere in the issue, there's an article about our military training methods. It is titled "The Killing Machine" and is written, of course, by a natural-born coward who, I guess, would rather see our nation be protected by a military force that's trained in ballet dancing. Then, in that same issue, there's a lot of positive fawning over "24" which is a kind of totally vacuous TV show in which (I watched it a couple of times) totally vacuous personalities speak totally vacuous sentences about totally vacuous events that sort of happen in totally vacuous places and are about totally vacuous political schemes being watched or foiled or copied (who knows?) by a totally vacuous anti-hero who mumbles his sentences so you have no idea what's really happening......which is how the show is purposely put together, because nothing does in fact happen, since that's how its producers figure they can prevent it from having any kind of political point of view, period. Someone should tell these people that the 60's were about talent and genuine creative power. That they gave life to intellectual liberation and artistic greatness, and that one cannot attempt to steal or imitate another generation's achievements and/or political events without falling into a totally vacuous pit of yucky trash. +++++++
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