The voting terms and the Voting Rights Act are outdated, like a dinosaur of outdated, outmoded democracy. We are controlled by politicians through a " matrix of termination rules " [Tavis Smiley Show 6.25.06] ... politicians in the pockets of lobbyists and corporations, who are looking to soak our monetary freedom and bind us in invisible manipulation that does not allow us to audit the liberties of those hcarpetbaggers, as we are audited by the Internal Revenue Services for our taxes, which we pay to see roads that are never fixed, armies that are undersupplied and overworked and education that will leave us with more and more McDonald's employees, rather than Intel employees [ or to be poetically similiar in names, McDonnell Douglas [[ which, with Bell Helicopters ]], a major manufacturer of military supply
www.helis.com/timeline/mcddh.php
{{lest we also forget Boeing either )) ...
Law and Politics and Rule and Religion ... those buckets of gasoline dumped haphazardly at the bonfires of anger and retaliation against those that leave us wondering " How the hell did we get here ?" Durante degli Alighieri understood this exile we, as patrons and citizens, have experienced by the administration and government now ... that keeps us at arm's length, despite the fact that this long, stretching arm sways like a pendelum across this nation like a sweeping saquoya fallen by years of abuse ... he was warned by his great-great-grandfather, Cacciaguida ...
. . . Tu lascerai ogne cosa diletta
più caramente; e questo è quello strale
che l'arco de lo essilio pria saetta.
Tu proverai sì come sa di sale
lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle
lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale . . .
[noted in Wikipedia]
The Divine Comedy describes Dante's journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso), guided first by the Roman epic poet Virgil and then by his beloved Beatrice. While the vision of Hell, the Inferno, is vivid for modern readers, the theological niceties presented in the other books require a certain amount of patience and scholarship to understand. Purgatorio, the most lyrical and human of the three, also has the most poets in it; Paradiso, the most heavily theological, has the most beautiful and ecstatic mystic passages, in which Dante tries to describe what he confesses he is unable to convey.
Today, we are suffering the Hell. We have been stuck in the Purgatory for so long and in the 50s, we are supposedly reminencing a Paradise that was only threatened by a supposed-Communist based Cuba and Castro. The new millineum is a hell on Earth for us and perhaps, we as satirical and cynical people deserve it. We have abandoned all the superficial things that made us identify with each other and lost our true, inner selves, that which is resound and absolute. We knew what we wanted, but allowed ourselves to be pulled around by the nose ring, much like cows led to the marketplace pens to be bought and sold, herded up the wooden ramps to shipping cars, great Industrial trains blowing hot coal, coverted into steam, carrying us by squeaky iron wheels down the tracks, past mountains, lakes, grassland and valleys to the slaughter houses of John Updike's day " slug 'em and gut 'em " warehouses that covert our carcasses into existential Soylent Green ...
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. - Jean Paul Satre
http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/Jean~paul-Satre/1
Tagline: It's the year 2022... People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need SOYLENT GREEN. - SOYLENT GREEN (1973)
Trivia for Soylent Green (1973)
* The technical consultant for the film was Frank R. Bowerman, who was president of the American Academy for Environmental Protection at the time.
* One of the scenes of the "beautiful earth" shown to Sol as he is dying is an opening shot from Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) (a flock of sheep on a green hillside).
* Edward G. Robinson's last film. Robinson died nine days after shooting had wrapped.
* The scene where Thorn and Roth share a meal of fresh food was not originally in the script, but was ad-libbed by Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson at director Richard Fleischer's request.
* The videogame in Simonson's apartment, "Computer Space", was one of the first coin-operated videogames, manufactured by Nutting Associates in 1971 and designed by Nolan Bushnell, who later founded Atari and designed "Pong". The videogame was painted white for the movie but the original color was either yellow, red or blue.
* One set of scenes in the original release, where a second family is housed with Thorn and Roth, was deleted from later copies of the film.
* The original title of Harry Harrison's book, "Make Room! Make Room!" was changed by the producers, who feared that audiences would confuse it with the 'Danny Thomas' TV series "Make Room for Daddy" (1953).
* Edward G. Robinson was almost totally deaf when he made this movie, and only able to hear anyone if they spoke directly into his ear. Because of this, scenes with him talking to other people had to be shot several times before he got the rhythm of the dialogue and was able to respond to people as if he could really hear them. And because he was unable to hear director Richard Fleischer yell "cut" when a scene went wrong, Robinson would often continue acting out the scene, unaware that shooting had stopped seconds earlier.
* The music which played when Edward G. Robinson was "going home":
o The overture was the principal theme from the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, the "Pathetique."
o When the visual presentation starts, the music is the first movement of Beethoven's "Symphony #6 (The Pastoral)".
o When the flock of sheep appear, the music is "Morning" from Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite #1".
o At the end of the presentation is "Asas Death", also from the "Peer Gynt Suite".
* The word soylent is supposed to suggest soy + lentil.
* All of the dialogue for actor Mike Henry ("Sgt. Kulozik") was dubbed. The actor's slight Southern drawl did not fit in with the New York cop character he was playing.
In the year 2022, earth's face has completely changed. New York's population, for example, has grown to 40 million mouths to feed. The greenhouse effect has risen the temperature into nearly unbearable regions, and the people are kept in the cities by law. The rich live in separated luxury apartments (with women as part of the rented furniture) but also experience the lack of natural food. Strawberries are at $150 for a glass of them. Police Detective Thorn investigates a strange murdering case of a official from the Soylent Corporation, which feeds the masses with a palette of their creations: Soylent red, yellow, or, even more nutritious, green. He soon stumbles across the real source of Soylent Green, which is not soy beans or plankton any more.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/trivia
We only have sixteen years. " If it bleeds, it leads " is so much a leading term not only of media, but also of this administration. Noone is taking responsibility and doing the right thing, damn the consequences. Who is to say that the Soylent Age is not upon us right now? We physically have consumed and devoured ourselves like cannibals on an island suffering from the radioactive afterthoughts of years of nuclear weaponry testing. We are not concluding thoughts or opinions sepearate of what we have been drummed upon by skewed technology that is dragging behind years of common sense and deep, transitional thought. Why is that? Are we looking to suffer intentionally? Perhaps. Perhaps we, as a society, are euthenazia-suffering patients looking for a quick out. We cannot take the pain of thinking " We are the ones who put these facists into office and running the nation like a police state, burgeoning Big Brother on us in a way that would make George Orwell gasp in horror, thinking ' My god, what did I predict? It was novel, for god's sake.' "
Till next blog,
Take an outside view from the stands to the mosh pit of humanity
... then dive in and stir up the conventionality ...
always ...
dr phibes
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