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11 Jan 13 - 05:59 AM (#3464435) Subject: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner From: GUEST,Fred McCormick Just come across this animated short from Ed Asner on the Crisis of Capitalism . Watch it. You might even agree with what he says. |
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11 Jan 13 - 08:21 AM (#3464466) Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner From: Rapparee Go down to your local Elks Lodge, American Legion, VFW, bar or other place where "real people" gather and talk. Just listen. Do this for some weeks, until they talk about what they REALLY think around you. Don't shoot off your mouth, don't express your own opinions. Just listen and sometimes agree. You'll learn a lot. Why do you think that bars and restaurants have twenty large-screen televisions in them, all tuned to old football games? Why is there music turned up to the point where you can't hear others? Could it be that we've become so used to noise that we no longer pay attention to each other? That we no longer talk, really talk, with each other? Could it be that we no longer listen as well? And could it be that if no one is really talking, listening and discussing things people will mouth platitudes instead of actual, well-founded, ideas? |
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11 Jan 13 - 08:42 AM (#3464472) Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner From: Elmore Thanks, Fred. Enjoyed the "fable." |
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11 Jan 13 - 10:54 AM (#3464515) Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner From: GUEST,Fred McCormick Rapparee. What the 'Enry Meville are you on about? |
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11 Jan 13 - 11:14 AM (#3464523) Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner From: GUEST,leeneia I wouldn't call it "Crisis in Capitalism". I'd call it "Crisis in Taxation". It makes valid points, of course. |
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11 Jan 13 - 01:02 PM (#3464566) Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner From: GUEST,Mrr whose computer RsIP I knew I liked him, back to the Mary Tyler Moore days. |
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11 Jan 13 - 02:31 PM (#3464624) Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner From: gnu Enough truth in there to make a grown man tear up. |
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11 Jan 13 - 03:23 PM (#3464650) Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner From: GUEST,Futwick This makes me think about that turd in Florida--rich fatcat--who sent an email to every employee in his company that said that if Obama gets reelected, kiss your jobs goodbye because he'll close his company down before he pays that bastard one red cent in extra taxes. Then he said he wasn't trying to tell his employees how to vote (as opposed to telling them they'll be unemployed if they vote for the wrong candidate). He cried alligator tears about what Obama's taxes on the rich will do to poor, little him. Then he goes off on a bragging spree about how well off he is and how much money he has and that he can afford to shut his company down and still live extremely well for the rest of his life. The worst part is that even if his employees knuckle under and voted against Obama, they'll still lose their jobs because they can't control the election. And if he has no real intention of folding his company (as I strongly suspect) what excuse has he to terrorize his employees this way? Because he can. He needs a good kick in the balls to bring him back to reality. If that doesn't work, at least he got kicked in the balls. |
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11 Jan 13 - 04:27 PM (#3464685) Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner From: Elmore Well said,Futwick. |
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11 Jan 13 - 08:28 PM (#3464805) Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner From: Bee-dubya-ell I like your nickname, Futwick. Are you related to Chuck U. Farley? |