and today's whimsical retro film clip comes from Network...
People of a certain age, my age, grew up with stuff like this. Not that it changed anything...
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19 comments:
Delightful.
"Why me?"
"Because you're on television, dummy"
Plus ca change.
It is indeed quality stuff
What it, and most other infotainment of its ilk, conspicuously failed to do was mention the role played by the banksters in all of this
I, and I suspect one or two others, spent the better part of the next 20 years thinking the likes of Exxon, Union Carbide and Coca Cola were responsible for all the world's ills when, in fact, they're just the delivery boys
...though, in fairness to Lumet, if he had mentioned the banksters his movie would never have been made
It might not have changed anything, but steeping your nut in this sort of stuff certainly changed me.
I was just wondering if anyone believes in destiny?
www.GodYesOrNo.com
One of the biggest internal contradictions of organised monotheistic religions is that they...
a) hold that all individuals are created with free will and conscience and are therefore accountable and will be judged on the basis of the decisions they make
and
b) teach that God regularly intervenes in human affairs and has decreed how things will turn out thousands of years in advance
Of course, most atheists believe something very similar and know that once they have enough computing power they will be able to model everything that has been and will be
Actually, I'm hard put to think of any belief system that doesn't include a belief in destiny in some shape or form and if you bump into anyone who denies that it'd be kind of interesting to ask them how they plan to become immortal
If you look at the universe as a biological version of the sims created in seven days, then predestination would make it rather boring for the creator.
as it happens, with the exception of the seven days bit, I currently do
and, though I've only tried it once, The Sims gameplay does veer to the dull side after a while doesn't it?
Yeah, I forgot he took a kip on the seventh day
The only computer game I have ever played was called rainbow island on the wonderful amiga, so I can't really comment.
It was quite nice but I fear the body count was too low for current gamerzzz.
more than compensated for by its jaunty graphics
hmmm, from Network to Rainbow Islands
that's an interesting path to personal enlightenment
To gain enlightenment we must attend to both the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
I think I've seen another clip from that movie. The 'dummy' urges people on a broadcast infront of a live studio audience(ahem) to turn off the TV and warns of its evils.
Good quality advice.
Aaah but Stef (21 October 2008 13:13) my dear friend, there is no contradiction between free will, pre-deterrmination and dynamism other than that which the limitations of the human mind erect as barriers to frustrate conception of a solution.
Unfortunately our educational institutions, and structured society in general, provide little in the way of encouragement to contemplate such a position.
It is an endless source of amusement that any aspect or consequence of God could possibly be properly grasped by the human brain, - an organ the size of a rather small melon.
Watch out, Dawkins's about
Pascals gambit still holds. Interesting post here.
http://www.answers.com/topic/pascal-s-wager
not too bad either
Thought of the scene from Network when otherwise normal education blokes started ramming cars into airport terminals and such. I thought about Finch telling his viewers to open the window, put their heads outside and shout, "I'm as angry as hell and I just can't take it anymore."
Well, that was then (70s): terrorism is now.
er, that should be 'educated' rather than 'education'
Anyway, talking of people wasting their lives in front of the tv, here's what Clay Shirky has to say on the matter.
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