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Post by Maryland Bear on Jun 16, 2009 10:53:50 GMT -5
If you haven't seen the movie Network, go out, find a copy, and watch it. You won't regret it.
Once you've seen it, ask yourself this: "damn, but did they get it right?"
Watch your favorite (or un-favorite) TV "news" blowhard -- Olberman, O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, whoever -- and ask yourself, "are they not about five seconds away from yelling out 'I'm mad as Hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!'"
Watch what passes for "reality" TV today, and you may well be almost surprised no one has actually done "The Mao Tse Tung Hour" yet. (That was one of the titular network's new shows, about an actual group of urban terrorists.)
The movie has to be one of the most prophetic films ever made.
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Post by Bezron on Jun 16, 2009 11:05:55 GMT -5
Hell, with the reality TV and gameshow trend the last decade or so, I'm thinking The Running Man (the book, not the crappy Ahnold movie) was kind of prophetic...
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Post by skyfire on Jun 16, 2009 14:29:47 GMT -5
Hell, with the reality TV and gameshow trend the last decade or so, I'm thinking The Running Man (the book, not the crappy Ahnold movie) was kind of prophetic... Don't forget "Fahrenheit 451", where the people in charge remain in charge because the bulk of the populace are too wrapped up in mindless entertainment to bother questioning anything and educators go out of their way to only teach what the folks in charge want taught in order to limit and suppress free thought and criticism. Books are contraband to be burned on sight (ironically, "451" is routinely banned in and of itself) since they fill people with uncontrollable ideas. |
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Post by Bezron on Jun 16, 2009 14:54:19 GMT -5
Good point...
And what group of people is it that routinely burns books?
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Post by skyfire on Jun 16, 2009 15:01:23 GMT -5
Good point... And what group of people is it that routinely burns books? Anyone that regards literature to be enough of a threat to want works destroyed, no matter what side of the religious or political spectrum they may be on. |
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Post by peanutfan on Jun 16, 2009 15:39:39 GMT -5
Hey, now, don't insult Olberman! At least he has the decency to act like his show is a talk show DISCUSSING the news, whereas the Fox crowd insists that its talk shows ARE the news.
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Post by Maryland Bear on Jun 16, 2009 19:30:33 GMT -5
Hey, now, don't insult Olberman! At least he has the decency to act like his show is a talk show DISCUSSING the news, whereas the Fox crowd insists that its talk shows ARE the news. Oh, I'm watching his show right now. While you are right about him being honest that his show is commentary and not news, I still find a lot of the flaws in him I see in the right wing commentators, too -- the fact I agree with his commentary notwithstanding. I find Rachel Maddow more appealing. She's much less... obnoxious. |
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Post by wmdkitty on Jun 17, 2009 0:34:41 GMT -5
Mmmm.... Rachel Maddow.... *drool*
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