Political Reality.
Evolution. Cigarettes. Fracking. Climate Change. Vaccination.
The list goes on and keeps growing as we keep adding more "issues" that oughta be decided in the lab or in the field by people who're trained to figure out just how all this shit works.
BTW, I put quote marks around the word "issues" because the things on that list are not issues at all. The things on that list are facts. They're facts that can be - and have been - verified by the people who actually know what they're doing.
And the "fact" that you have an opinion to the contrary doesn't mean your opinion must be considered in any way equivalent to those facts.
But I digress - the point here is that I was recently hipped to an old Henrik Ibsen play from the 1880s that cuts so close to what's going on now that it made my ears feel hot and the hair on my back stand up.
Here's a little taste from a TV production done in the early 1960s:
(The town is on its way to becoming a big commercial success as a health spa, but a local doctor (Thomas) discovers the water is contaminated, but his brother Peter who is mayor and so a bidness player is hard to convince - and if you've been paying any attention to the redux of Newspeak and Coin-Operated Government and Know-Nothing Rubes and any number of "types" running rampantly abroad in this joint lately, you can guess what a big sloppy mess it turns into - including the old timey versions of Press Poodles and Bloggers)
Sub-par sound levels, but not so bad considering the times and the fact that they did it live in a TV studio.
The more things change...dontcha know.
hat tip = The Professional Left podcast
Here's the Librivox audiobook:
Evolution. Cigarettes. Fracking. Climate Change. Vaccination.
The list goes on and keeps growing as we keep adding more "issues" that oughta be decided in the lab or in the field by people who're trained to figure out just how all this shit works.
BTW, I put quote marks around the word "issues" because the things on that list are not issues at all. The things on that list are facts. They're facts that can be - and have been - verified by the people who actually know what they're doing.
And the "fact" that you have an opinion to the contrary doesn't mean your opinion must be considered in any way equivalent to those facts.
But I digress - the point here is that I was recently hipped to an old Henrik Ibsen play from the 1880s that cuts so close to what's going on now that it made my ears feel hot and the hair on my back stand up.
Here's a little taste from a TV production done in the early 1960s:
(The town is on its way to becoming a big commercial success as a health spa, but a local doctor (Thomas) discovers the water is contaminated, but his brother Peter who is mayor and so a bidness player is hard to convince - and if you've been paying any attention to the redux of Newspeak and Coin-Operated Government and Know-Nothing Rubes and any number of "types" running rampantly abroad in this joint lately, you can guess what a big sloppy mess it turns into - including the old timey versions of Press Poodles and Bloggers)
Sub-par sound levels, but not so bad considering the times and the fact that they did it live in a TV studio.
The more things change...dontcha know.
hat tip = The Professional Left podcast
Here's the Librivox audiobook:
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