Posted on 10/31/2017 7:41:13 PM PDT by grundle
The Rat Cage. George Orwell’s political thriller, “1984.”
If you’re here to zing me, you’re too late.
You’re too late to Twitter me.
Too late to destroy a non-existent reputation.
Too late to get me fired from a non-existent job.
Too late to isolate me from friends, family, and business—who are mostly dead or missing.
Too late to fix me in place and ridicule me.
Because I’m too old.
In fact, I’m so old that I remember a time when America was still America. And was enjoying a Golden Age that now seems lost forever.
I’m so old that Roosevelt was President.
I’m so old there was no television.
I’m so old that electricity was about as new to us as MTV is new to America.
I’m so old that there were no refrigerators; there were ice boxes. And horses pulled wooden wagons to deliver the ice to your ice box. And the drivers would throw you slivers of ice in the summer, and the ice had splinters and tasted like the wet, wooden bed of the wagon…
I’m so old that this “cock holster,” below, would not have even existed:
Colbert Nazi salute:
Steven “Cock Holster” (He said it not me) Colbert Gives Nazi Salute To Trump
I’m so old that there are even laws against hitting me.
I mean, like, I am REALLY OLD, okay?
You think maybe I’m too old to know anything? Never heard of Kim, Kanye, Miley, Malia, and that fat slob with the rape-no rape story—etc? Michael Phelps, Simone Biles, Kevin Durant, Steven Avery, Mad Maxine Waters, and more?
Listen, Bucko: my generation INVENTED television, transistors, LEDs, stereo, computers, rockets, Teflon, space travel, THE INTERNET, MTV, cell phones, IMAX, Star Wars, the rave, the wave, the “woo,” and the woo-hoo too. Amazon, bungee jumping, the AR-15, cruise missiles, and a lot more.
Me—I’ve watched World War II, Korea, the Cold War, the Berlin Airlift, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Viet Nam, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, secret little wars, and the long march of a bunch of temporary employees called Presidents.
I have NOTHING but spare time, and believe me, vato, I READ EVERYTHING. I know what you know; and I know what I know—that you don’t know yet.
Who do you think operates this site? I do. Before I did this, I was one of the original founders of SEO. I was a web guru. I was an Internet Consultant at AOL. I was an Internet marketeer. And a lot more.
So—why am I even telling you all this? What difference does it make?
The point is: I’ve seen EVERYTHING three times.
And yet I can still smell the peanut butter. And, so, I remember it all. And that’s the part some tell me they don’t like….
…that I remember how it was.
I remember competent men returning from a war that saved Earth. Real men. I remember real leaders. I remember good men on both sides of the political aisle. I remember that spoken of, Golden Age of America. Clean. Heroic. Brave. Free. America was one big neighborhood, and everybody cared.
Everyone cherished individuality, morality, success, and self-control. Creativity, imagination, and waking up in the morning.
But, in these newly twisted, darkened days—such remembrances are Not Allowed….
And, yet—I’m not just gonna let it go by unchallenged anymore.
I’ll do whatever it Reasonably takes TO GET YOUR ATTENTION.
Listen to me; there’s something good in this for you:
What do I want?
Why do I do this?
I do it for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
This includes Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness, and Equality And Security For All—Before A Morally Just Law.
To not be judged by the amount of melanin in our skin.
Or by where we come from.
Or by what genes we might carry.
Or solely by a religion we might profess or what we think.
But, what do YOU stand for? What are you DOING about this?
Do you dare even say it out loud anymore?
Stand up. Say something.
Are you scared?
I come to you from another Age.
From another Time.
And what it is I bring you from back there—it’s olden human courage; hope; imagination; creativity; rugged individualism, freedom, and more. If you will play:
Hoaward Beale, NETWORK, 1976 .
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I will not wear the black crepe if mourning for our country....
Well, at least you posted the whole thing...
It’s brilliant.
And you’re not alone.
LFOD
That was well done. Many readers assume that such recollections are biased accounts of exclusively good memories, but generally, political, business and social policies did work better during those years.
Twisted and bizarre statements about those years come from the social left on all political sides. Marital relations are worse for far more people now. More families are more scattered and less cohesive. We’re less safe from being destroyed by attacks from foreign enemies. The economy is far worse for most Americans who get their incomes from the private sector. We have fewer freedoms for healthy activities but more promotions and permissiveness toward very unhealthy and economically unwise activities.
I’m almost Friedberg’s age and remember most of the same things. Our air was pretty clean as was the water. People worked. Discrimination was being eliminated and immigration was reasonable.
I was able to walk home safely from schools, ball games, visiting people a couple blocks or a mile away, going to and from the store without being hassled or robbed, or run over by a drug-addled driver.
Girls were proper clothing and had good manners. Guys were expected to do the same and if one’s date’s mother knew your mother, you had to behave or else.
Our fathers served in WW2, our grandfathers and uncles in WW1. Superman was our American hero - “Truth, Justice and the American Way”.
That was not just a slogan, it was a way of life, and billions of prisoners of communism and those freed from Nazism/fascism wished they could live under just those three words, if only in their own country, but preferably in ours.
The United Nations actually did positive things back then despite being deliberately crippled at birth by Soviet agents in the U.S. government (Alger Hiss, for one).
Religious holidays were observed and respected. Churches and synagogues were regarded as sacred places, not place to protest, invade, vandal and destroy.
Teachers were respected because they were good educators, decent people, and often our neighbors. Schools were for learning, not burning.
When you were on the sports field, there was “no color” except that of your school’s uniform. The same in the military, and that positive effect spilled over into a slowly, but changing for the better, society.
Things made in America lasted, and worked, and got better as our educated people made them so, or invented something new for us.
I remember when Polio was a crippler for life for some children. The measles, mumps, chicken pox, etc. were threats that were slowly being “medicine” out of our daily lives. There was literally no “plague” in the U.S.
Our planes were great, as were our ships, trains, buses, and cars. The roads were our “freeways of travel”, our “highways of freedom” (no Internal Passports like the Soviet Union had).
The comic books were fun to read as were the Sunday funnies, but the libraries were still our second home after school hours.
Many politicians were both honest and cared about their constituents, not votes. Can you say the same thing today?
If the answer is “NO”, you get 100% on my test re political degradation.
If someone spit on the flag or tried to burn it, the first call out about it was for an ambulance.
Today it’s for a lawyer!
When you get older you also get a much better perspective on life, something the millenials will probably never get (for most of them). A more useless bunch of self-indulgent, girlymen and feminazi women has never existed in America, which is why we made it as far as we did before the Marxists, posing as Liberals, began a concerted campaign to undermine our values - religious, political, moral, ethical, and rational.
And they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams because our school and college administrators have become a bunch of Politically Correct, panties in a wad, cowards, whiny wimps, snowflakes and all around doucebags. The same for many of their schools’ students, and their parents aren’t much better.
This next election in November at the local and state levels, and next year’s congressional elections, will make or break Pres. Trump, his administration, and American greatness which is on the road to recovery despite the Left’s vicious attacks on it.
So Vote Like Hell whenever you can. Drain every swamp you can. Wear “Roto-Rooter Man” and “Terminex” t-shirts when you enter the voting booth.
America will get the message! No Retreat. No Surrender. Only Victory and Honor!
Now we have the Internet. Newspapers, radio then TV have been molding our minds the way the politicians wanted them molded. Now a nobody can create something which goes viral overnight and the lords of communication can do nothing about it.
We also still have Article V of the Constitution. That special protection placed in there against a Federal Government gone malignant is still there. It's been waiting around over 200 years, unused , for a time such as this. Put the Internet to good use by getting Article V to get used.
RE Internet, etc:
Instant spotlight makes the cockroaches run for cover...
It’s a powerful tool.
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