“…it’s hard to resist your own substance, you’d like to stop all this, give yourself time to think about it and listen without difficulty to your heartbeat, but it’s too late for that. This thing can never stop. This enormous steel box is on a collision course; we, inside it, are whirling madly with the machines and the Earth. All together, along with the thousands of little wheels and hammers that never strike at the same time, that make noises which shatter one another, some so violent that they release a kind of silence around them, which makes you feel a little better. You give into noise as you give in to war. As the machines you let yourself go with the two three ideas that are wobbling about at the top of your head. And that’s the end. From then on everything you look at, everything you touch is hard. And everything you still manage to remember more or less becomes as rigid as iron and loses its savor in your thoughts.” Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
“It’s not that I like the empire—I hate it—but there’s nothing I can do about it right now.” Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
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Well, it seems as though he (and his powerful chummies) are pretty good at silencing contrary opinions after all. Oh yah, and at being hypocritical facists too.
--THOD
Ahhh, the golden days of television when people were not afraid to speak their minds and were not afraid of the big bad Rush.... Think he's high?
That shot of the empty audience at the end is faintly eerie, and somewhat prophetic. When Limbaugh says "I like to communicate with people," he means at people. It's extremely easy to present yourself as a voice of authority when no one is allowed to talk back. It would appear our current administration took some lessons -- but even the best-scripted press conferences, or radio shows, can only fool people for so long.
Yeah, I agree. The dissent didn't go much beyond mindless catcalls, but still Rush couldn't deal with it so he was forced to get rid of EVERYBODY. That's the kind of debate those fuckers want. We have to get know them, ie., we have to listen to their propaganda without a word in edgewise. If only Rush had time to explain how the head of NOW is a potato by boycotting potato. We will never hear Rush's sage wisdom because of some beautifully obnoxious audience members.
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