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Dated but utterly contemperary at the same time. It basically sums up what modern Republicanism has done to America. BTW Dr. Seuss animated this short film so it is kind of cool to see his art work.
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Are you trying to say there was a time in America who was looking like the first part of your video?bleh -
He's trying to say that Bush and the GOP are evil.Originally posted by CrONoS
Are you trying to say there was a time in America who was looking like the first part of your video?I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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A time when it looked more like that then any other place in the world.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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It looks like it was done in the 50's or 60's but it really could have been done today. It's almost uncanny.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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That wasn't Dr. Suess.
BTW, both leading parties are responsible for the mess, not just the GOP, you hack. I'm the wiseman.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Re: Orson Welles was right all those years ago.
You're an idiot.Originally posted by Oerdin
Dated but utterly contemperary at the same time. It basically sums up what modern Republicanism has done to America. BTW Dr. Seuss animated this short film so it is kind of cool to see his art work.
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I'm really curious when you had a "golden age" of "freedom" or a day when resource were genuinely shared to all members of society?blehComment
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On a side note:
I read 1984 and Brave New World; I think Huxley was mostly right on many issue affecting our society.
Here a difference between Orwell & Huxley:
Brave New World Vs 1984
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.blehComment
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Our Golden Age was the 1950s and 60s. Truman and Kennedy had a bunch of leaders to use.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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I think you missed the point of 1984 and Animal Farm. They were meant as satires of 20th century totalitarian regimes. As such, they were pretty spot on, IMO.Originally posted by CrONoS
On a side note:
I read 1984 and Brave New World; I think Huxley was mostly right on many issue affecting our society.Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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Oh, and this movie needs Boris Karloff.Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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(I should have created a new thread) Thanks for the precision, but I thought since Orwell called it 1984 (and was wrote ~1945) it has to spoke about our future or as an essay to create an anticipation novel.Originally posted by Nostromo
I think you missed the point of 1984 and Animal Farm. They were meant as satires of 20th century totalitarian regimes. As such, they were pretty spot on, IMO.
Even if it was not the aim of his novel.blehComment
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It takes place in the future, but I don't believe it was meant as a prophecy. It was just a literary technique he used.Originally posted by CrONoS
(I should have created a new thread) Thanks for the precision, but I thought since Orwell called it 1984 (and was wrote ~1945) it has to spoke about our future or as an essay to create an anticipation novel.
Even if it was not the aim of his novel.
H.G Wells' War of the Worlds isn't a prophecy either, BTW.
Wells used the sci-fi format to criticize European colonialism.
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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1984 was about the increasing police state Orwell saw growing in Great Britain falling WWII.Originally posted by Nostromo
I think you missed the point of 1984 and Animal Farm. They were meant as satires of 20th century totalitarian regimes. As such, they were pretty spot on, IMO.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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