I’ve noticed for some time that the politicians of today do not appear to have quite the same amount of stuff up top as the politicians of yesterday. It may be no more than the typical “things were better in my day” perspective that afflicts humanity as we merrily advance into our elder years - otherwise known as the Grumpy Old Git syndrome.
It's really the ultimate consequence, I suspect, of the death of adulthood.
And no, I don't mean "adulting," a made-up word whose existence seems a testament to the general lack of expectations around grown-up people.
Cardi B and her friends are just the toddlers shouting "poopy!" Nina J. is just part of the generation that never got beyond "watch me! watch me! look at me!" The advertisers have won. The only thing we call undignified as a culture is the physical deterioration that comes with illness and old age (to wit, "death with dignity"). Nowhere else do we call for people to comport themselves with dignity except when they become old or infirm. And now we are left with the tween girl who, finally, just covers her ears and yells, "Shut UP! SHUT UP!" Except we seem to have decided that she is qualified to steer this ship.
I knew it would come to this. Remember all the “dancing” videos that our desperately overworked doctors and nurses somehow had time to make in the hospitals that were so overwhelmed that they had empty halls and rooms that could accommodate producing choreographed videos with dozens of people?
That’s when I realized that the whole “Covid” thing was the triumph of the infantile.
The new Truth Minister is a continuation of that theme.
Quite often, content of the speech is less important than who gave it to whom, at what point in time it was given, and at what point in time it is being listened to. Here's one for fun:
"And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them. So, together, we must go forward with confidence, determination, and vision. We must not be timid, or meek, or fearful - but instead we must boldly seize the day and embrace the moment. We will draw strength from the glories of the past, and we will make greatness our common mission for the future. Together, we will make our nations stronger, our countries safer, our culture richer, our people freer, and the world more beautiful than ever before."
At some point, the "speech" switches from Reagan to Trump. Can you tell where?
We've had official censorship in the US since the Woodrow Wilson Administration - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3QrfEdEWMo - or before, in the Adams Administration, with the Sedition Act of 1798 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5RP9QEkt8, so this is nothing new - and it's still as much of a violation of the First Amendment as it was in those years. BTW, Schenck got overturned in later years, it's not current law...
And note the designated liar when asked about Nina’s appointment. She says that she doesn’t know anything about it.....so we are to believe that this “disinformation board”, something that the government has never dared do before, was set up and Nina appointed..... and the White House had nothing to do with it? I call Bulls***!!!
Even leaving out pictures of Applebees entrees & duck face selfies there has been far more of human history documented in the last 20 years than in the previous 2000. And if you compared the most profound words written in the past 20 years to the words of Lincoln dedicating the Cemetery at Gettysburg they would fall far short in both style and substance. “The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. ...”
And there is no doubt that MLK's I Have a Dream speech is inspirational, I think his Letter from Birmingham Jail is more moving. IMAO
It's really the ultimate consequence, I suspect, of the death of adulthood.
And no, I don't mean "adulting," a made-up word whose existence seems a testament to the general lack of expectations around grown-up people.
Cardi B and her friends are just the toddlers shouting "poopy!" Nina J. is just part of the generation that never got beyond "watch me! watch me! look at me!" The advertisers have won. The only thing we call undignified as a culture is the physical deterioration that comes with illness and old age (to wit, "death with dignity"). Nowhere else do we call for people to comport themselves with dignity except when they become old or infirm. And now we are left with the tween girl who, finally, just covers her ears and yells, "Shut UP! SHUT UP!" Except we seem to have decided that she is qualified to steer this ship.
I knew it would come to this. Remember all the “dancing” videos that our desperately overworked doctors and nurses somehow had time to make in the hospitals that were so overwhelmed that they had empty halls and rooms that could accommodate producing choreographed videos with dozens of people?
That’s when I realized that the whole “Covid” thing was the triumph of the infantile.
The new Truth Minister is a continuation of that theme.
Quite often, content of the speech is less important than who gave it to whom, at what point in time it was given, and at what point in time it is being listened to. Here's one for fun:
"And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them. So, together, we must go forward with confidence, determination, and vision. We must not be timid, or meek, or fearful - but instead we must boldly seize the day and embrace the moment. We will draw strength from the glories of the past, and we will make greatness our common mission for the future. Together, we will make our nations stronger, our countries safer, our culture richer, our people freer, and the world more beautiful than ever before."
At some point, the "speech" switches from Reagan to Trump. Can you tell where?
We've had official censorship in the US since the Woodrow Wilson Administration - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3QrfEdEWMo - or before, in the Adams Administration, with the Sedition Act of 1798 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5RP9QEkt8, so this is nothing new - and it's still as much of a violation of the First Amendment as it was in those years. BTW, Schenck got overturned in later years, it's not current law...
And note the designated liar when asked about Nina’s appointment. She says that she doesn’t know anything about it.....so we are to believe that this “disinformation board”, something that the government has never dared do before, was set up and Nina appointed..... and the White House had nothing to do with it? I call Bulls***!!!
Even leaving out pictures of Applebees entrees & duck face selfies there has been far more of human history documented in the last 20 years than in the previous 2000. And if you compared the most profound words written in the past 20 years to the words of Lincoln dedicating the Cemetery at Gettysburg they would fall far short in both style and substance. “The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. ...”
And there is no doubt that MLK's I Have a Dream speech is inspirational, I think his Letter from Birmingham Jail is more moving. IMAO
Such inspirational speeches!