Posted on 04/01/2018 12:01:16 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Mark my words ... If the left ever gets another foothold in our land (and I believe they may) we will NEVER see our liberties or safety ever again
On the peaceful drive home from Santa Fe, going the back way up through the San Luis Valley to Colorado Springs, I caught an AM radio program that was wafting in and out from some town in the southwestern United States. The sun was setting. I was alone on the highway. And the saged prairies dotted with dark juniper cedar trees were rolling by in front of high mountains covered in pine. Anyone who’s made that trip will understand the awesome solemnity which accompanies that beautiful scenery.
Thought you were banning boobs there for a second.
Wasn’t sure I wanted to live if that happened.
Ban social media under age 21.
I’m serious.
Banning your shady blogpimping butt would be even better.
Oh Dear God!
I read as far as “Ban the Boob...” and I had a panic attack!
Beautiful drive from Santa Fe up through the “back door” to the Springs. The NM part of the road was *very* chewed up when I was on it though.
Agreed to a point. However, I’m not sure we should even quit at banning television. We should ban books as well. After all, it WAS books and philosophical treatises that caused the horrific events of the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, and by extension Marxism and the stuff Lenin pulled off (TV was not even a concept during those times, and motion pictures were barely in their infancy when Lenin took power). In particular, we should ban Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, D’Alembert, pretty much any and all Enlightenment Philosophers, plus David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzche, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, and Simone de Beauvoir, just to name a few. Make no mistake, books can be just as dangerous regarding promoting very horrific ideas and setting bad traits as TV and movies.
Go away. Please. And never return. You do not contribute anything.
Boob tube = idiot box
Nope.
Your move.
I don’t think the books in the French Revolution period, though subversive, were as effective as TV and today’s media.
From what I have read, back during the time leading up to the French Revolution, it was mostly the elite that read the works of Voltaire and the Enlightenment philosophers. The elite, the Jacobites, etc., in turn, stirred the masses to revolt. Today, its the masses who are subverted directly by visual means.
Who reads books nowadays? A very few. You have to put forth an effort to read a book. They get their daily dose of propaganda from something that requires no effort on their part.
Just one man’s opinion.
That’s where you’re wrong: Turns out, Voltaire and Diderot planned out a march through the institutions long before Gramsci could be credited with the idea, and about 2/3rds of their plan literally involved books as well as people’s literacy in them. Don’t believe me? Read Timothy Dwight’s sermon dealing with that matter:
http://www.wnd.com/2006/04/35810/#LFe1HvZ0eTHxBBmT.99
Specifically:
The Duty of Americans at the Present Crisis by Timothy Dwight, July 4, 1798
“About the year 1728, Voltaire, so celebrated for his wit and brilliancy and not less distinguished for his hatred of Christianity and his abandonment of principle, formed a systematical design to destroy Christianity and to introduce in its stead a general diffusion of irreligion and atheism. For this purpose he associated with himself Frederick the II, king of Prussia, and Mess. D’Alembert and Diderot, the principal compilers of the Encyclopedie, all men of talents, atheists and in the like manner abandoned. // “The principle parts of this system were: // “1. The compilation of the Encyclopedie: in which with great art and insidiousness the doctrines of … Christian theology were rendered absurd and ridiculous; and the mind of the reader was insensibly steeled against conviction and duty. // “2. The overthrow of the religious orders in Catholic countries, a step essentially necessary to the destruction of the religion professed in those countries. // “3. The establishment of a sect of philosophists to serve, it is presumed as a conclave, a rallying point, for all their followers. // “4. The appropriation to themselves, and their disciples, of the places and honors of members of the French Academy, the most respectable literary society in France, and always considered as containing none but men of prime learning and talents. In this way they designed to hold out themselves and their friends as the only persons of great literary and intellectual distinction in that country, and to dictate all literary opinions to the nation. // “5. The fabrication of books of all kinds against Christianity, especially such as excite doubt and generate contempt and derision. Of these they issued by themselves and their friends who early became numerous, an immense number; so printed as to be purchased for little or nothing, and so written as to catch the feelings, and steal upon the approbation, of every class of men. // “6. The formation of a secret Academy, of which Voltaire was the standing president, and in which books were formed, altered, forged, imputed as posthumous to deceased writers of reputation, and sent abroad with the weight of their names. These were printed and circulated at the lowest price through all classes of men in an uninterrupted succession, and through every part of the kingdom.”
In other words, even the Peasant classes had to have read their dreck. There’s no other way the plan could have reasonably worked as listed above.
So yes, that proves that books are definitely just as dangerous as TV. And yes, people DO read books today even still. Just take a look at your literature department at the University system, and many of them STILL manage to make leaps of logic stating that Geoffrey Chaucer, for example, wanted the Equal Rights Amendment (I’d know, I witnessed that first hand).
Some people are like herpes, unpleasant and never go away.
I think a whole lot of people (possibly including my lovely wife) would be much better off if they banned TV. Certainly a lot of kids would be better off! The amount of disinformation and propaganda is breathtaking!
Happy Easter All!
lol, thanks, you’ve solved a delimma.
I bought two 4k 40” tv’s after Christmas. I figured I’d use one as a computer monitor and hang the other one in the bedroom where I already have a TV. My plan was when I’m not computing, to display digital art. I can change the art up that way and never pay for art again.
And I’ve been debating just what kind of art I want to display. Boob art was already under consideration. And now it’s in first place.
As for the other recommendations. I did get married after 25, got divorced too. I’ve got kids. I’ve got the dad bod.
My and my boob art may just live to a ripe old age! :)
Boob Art...
The possibilities are endless!
You might want to go down to the clinic and get that checked out.
I did.
The doctor said I had gynosyphalaidsghonnaclamyidia crabs.
He recommended hospice and pallative care.
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