I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!
We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."
Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.
I want you to get mad!
I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.
You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
-- Howard Beale, played by Peter Finch, Network (1976)
As true now as it was then, over 30 years ago.
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Originally posted by SuzianneI think if you look back, even further, you'll see that there is a "pattern" here Sparky. I think it's called "History repeating itself"....again and again and again and again etc. I'd be willing to wager that it'll happen again in the future and again in the future and again in the future. What is it....Human Nature?
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end ...[text shortened]... twork (1976)
As true now as it was then, over 30 years ago.
Sure go ahead and get mad...even mad as hell but do WE ever really learn? If history is any indication I'm on the NO side. But hey that's not rocket science is it?
One thing that helps is to stop watching the news. Negativity sells, and the media knows it. We are living in a deeply fear-based society and that makes you feel weak and helpless in the face of the apparently growing list of insoluble problems the world faces. If you can discipline yourself to have a more positive focus you will feel more empowered and will attract people and resources that will help raise the quality of your life. People have microwave mentalities and want what they want now and get angry if they don't get it. But anger is false empowerment. I can't see the Dalai Lama going to town hall meetings and shouting down people with different opinions on health care.
Originally posted by homedepotovA war is coming like no man has every saw and i am mad as hell. We the people well take our country back one way or another. 😠😠😠😠
One thing that helps is to stop watching the news. Negativity sells, and the media knows it. We are living in a deeply fear-based society and that makes you feel weak and helpless in the face of the apparently growing list of insoluble problems the world faces. If you can discipline yourself to have a more positive focus you will feel more empowered and ...[text shortened]... a going to town hall meetings and shouting down people with different opinions on health care.
Originally posted by SuzianneA very annoying trend that I have noticed recently, 90% of my "friends" have decided to sell some type of useless trinket that they feel will make them rich.
What a great song. First time I've heard of this guy. Reminds me of Jerry Riopelle.
Thanks for posting this. A nice capper to an otherwise pretty crappy day.
Anything from candles to makeup to video phones. I of course refuse to buy any of this when I can buy the same thing at WalMart for 1/2 the price. Some even use the "you know our situation and it would really help me if you would buy this $100 phone" line. Why do they feel like I am going to support them, I have a job that I go to every day and they could also.
I just feel like this is not OK to ask your friends to purchase things like that. Am I the only one in the country that does not sell something?
