tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post4626007878753857386..comments2023-04-09T16:07:39.987+01:00Comments on Wrinkled Weasel's World: Banishment and disenfranchisementWrinkled Weaselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05291551539649118631noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post-54055951294405837642010-11-03T10:58:20.939+00:002010-11-03T10:58:20.939+00:00The orginal is about a third of the way down this ...The orginal is about a third of the way down this page:<br /><br />http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/quotesJim Baxterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10817293012642419524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post-81580454778085723242010-11-03T10:52:15.165+00:002010-11-03T10:52:15.165+00:00Thanks WW.
I might do that. For the benefit of yo...Thanks WW.<br /><br />I might do that. For the benefit of your readers who don't recognise it, it is a barely adapted version of Mr Jensen's (Ned Beatty) rant at Howard Beale (Peter Finch) from the film 'Network' <br />(1976) - Writer, Paddy Chayevsky; Director, Sidney Lumet.<br /><br />Well (sniffs), it was famous enough in 'my day' to need no attribution.<br /><br />I tend to think of it when people talk about national sovereignty and democracy and wonder how much of it was fiction then and how much of it is now.Jim Baxterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10817293012642419524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post-36652131347351373572010-11-03T09:36:27.213+00:002010-11-03T09:36:27.213+00:00Jim, I merely invite you to take your comment, fil...Jim, I merely invite you to take your comment, fill it out a bit, and present it as a guest post on WW, for it is worthy of further debate.Wrinkled Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05291551539649118631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post-23346561821736751072010-11-02T15:53:12.927+00:002010-11-02T15:53:12.927+00:00You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations ...You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, euros, rins, roubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! <br /><br />Am I getting through to you, Mr. Weasel? You get up on your little blog and howl about Britain and democracy. There is no Britain. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, ICI, BP, and Exxon. <br /><br />Those ARE the nations of the world today. What do you think the Chinese talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Weasel. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world... is a business, Mr. Weasel. It has been since man crawled out of the slime.Jim Baxterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10817293012642419524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19662178.post-4530350866603249562010-11-02T14:05:29.880+00:002010-11-02T14:05:29.880+00:00Unbelievable, those 'ooman rites!
But what st...Unbelievable, those 'ooman rites!<br /><br />But what struck me dumb was:<br /><br />Prisoners get 3 times as much as hospital patients for food.<br /><br />This Dystopia run by morons has reached a new low - if anyone needs improved diet then surely it's the sick, not those behind bars.Ed Pnoreply@blogger.com