[Peace-discuss] What Carl's highly AWARE average American will be watching at the movie theater this weekend...

[John W.]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:40 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

And so we need a Serious Group to run things for us until we become
> interested, up to your standards, right?


That is in fact what we HAVE, and what we will continue to have until we as
a people become interested enough to do something about it.  There's always
a Serious Group willing to fill the power vacuum - for a price.



> BTW, will you buy the popcorn? (Ethanol's pushed corn prices out of sight.)


I wasn't planning to ATTEND Hellboy, Carl.  I'm much too elitist for such
nonsense, as you well know.  Are you suggesting that you have fallen on hard
times, and that I provide a subsidy for YOU to purchase YOUR popcorn?



> John W. wrote:


>  On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:54 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu<mailto:
>> galliher at uiuc.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>    The American ruling class is as alive to the danger that democracy
>>    poses as their ancestors who drafted the anti-democratic
>>    constitution of 1787 were. (See, e.g., the famous 1975 Trilateral
>>    Commission study, The Crisis of Democracy -- the crisis being that
>>    there was too much democracy around, growing out of the '60s.)
>>
>>    And it's no accident that the media (including film) are as asinine
>>    and stupefying as they are.  (See, e.g., Frances Stonor Saunders'
>>    wonderful book about how the CIA spent a great deal of money to dumb
>>    down culture -- The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts
>>    and Letters.)
>>    But if one wanted to disparage democracy, one of the best ways to do
>>    it would be to convince people that all around them were fools and
>>    poltroons. --CGE
>>
>>
>> It's been convincingly demonstrated in many quarters, Carl, that democracy
>> only works if you have an engaged and reasonably educated populace.
>>  Americans may be educable in the fundamentals of democracy, but they
>> haven't yet demonstrated that they're particularly interested in it.
>>
>> Enjoy Hellboy II.
>>
>>
>>
>>    n.dahlheim at mchsi.com <mailto:n.dahlheim at mchsi.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>        John,
>>
>>
>>          I just cannot help but think that the masses really are
>>        asses... Doesn't the entertainment just become more asanine and
>>        stupeifying?  The culture just continues its inexorable and
>>        continued decline....
>>
>>            Best,
>>            Nick
>>
>>
>>        ----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
>>        From:    "John W." <jbw292002 at gmail.com
>>        <mailto:jbw292002 at gmail.com>>
>>        To:      Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>>        <mailto:peace-discuss at anti-war.net>>
>>        Subject: [Peace-discuss] What Carl's highly AWARE average
>>        American will be watching at the movie theater this weekend...
>>        Date:    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:01:26 +0000
>>
>>            Ooops....it's that damned conspiracy of the media to
>>            manufacture consent
>>            again!!!  :-(
>>
>>
>>
>>            *Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)*
>>
>
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