Shari: I have noticed that any movie that shows men as men, and women as women, are very popular. Those stupid prizes don’t mean anything.
Mantra Thinking:
That is one reason why competition and technological advance is so good for us. When network TV ruled the networks could afford to devote enormous amounts of time to pure propaganda, CBS was at the top with all ten top shows. But at New York cocktail parties, they were ridiculed as “The Country Network.” So they CANCELLED their top shows like “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “Green Acres.” It cost them a fortune, but they could afford it.
When the market was at an all-time high, Ted Turner gave the UN bureaucracy a billion dollars.
I was happy to hear a line on “Married With Children:” “as dead as network TV.”
I never openly advocate breaking the law, but I have the same attitude many Americans had during Prohibition: I am all for the bootleggers. Hollywood is our ENEMY. Anyone who bootlegs their copyrights has my complete approval.
Mantra Thinking:
This is war. Step back and figure out who your enemy is. Anything that hurts him or threatens to hurt him is good. The enemy does not react to your reason, but he does react to shots fired.
But don’t mistake those last two words. I do not mean the kind of shooting that makes you look Manly and Heroic. I shot at the enemy’s minions, but not because THAT was my purpose. The shots I fired that mattered were at the enemy’s politics, in a coat and tie, not fatigues.
Hit where it HURTS, not where it makes you look good. No leftist network cares how many Commie guerrillas you kill. The supply is unlimited.
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#1 by mderpelding on 12/19/2007 - 9:23 pm
I have a question on the following…
“Mantra Thinking:
This is war. Step back and figure out who your enemy is. Anything that hurts him or threatens to hurt him is good. The enemy does not react to your reason, but he does react to shots fired.”
Quotes mine.
If I hurt an enemy, they can still come back to harm me. Unless they decide to not be my enemy.
But that makes my survival dependent on my enemy’s choices, not mine.
If our fight is truly existential in nature, then the choice to cause hurt as opposed to extinction reeks of fighting not to insure survival but to perpetuate conflict.
That’s a Hegelian/Marxian construct.
In which case, the question should be:
cui bono?
Certainly not me and my posterity.
Nor others like me who could be categorized as “us.”