The Artilleryman Rant, Part 1

[The Good Reverend Roger]

We need people like them. Where did the dreamers all go?

Farmville.

You just made my brain roll over in my arse.

You won't be needing it, anyway.  The Networks are due to release their new series pretty soon.

[Adios]

I know. We have sacrificed imagination and thinking for mind numbing games and entertainment. Is it deliberate of did it slowly creep in while we were distracted?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I know. We have sacrificed imagination and thinking for mind numbing games and entertainment. Is it deliberate of did it slowly creep in while we were distracted?

It was deliberate, and began with radio.  When television became commerically available, the trend exploded, and the shit was crammed down the public's throats.  Mind you, this was in an age when people were conditioned to believe that they were told, and to accept what was given to them...And to brand any other thinking "communist" or "un-American".


Good thing we don't do THAT anymore.  Support the troops.

[Adios]

I know. We have sacrificed imagination and thinking for mind numbing games and entertainment. Is it deliberate of did it slowly creep in while we were distracted?

It was deliberate, and began with radio.  When television became commerically available, the trend exploded, and the shit was crammed down the public's throats.  Mind you, this was in an age when people were conditioned to believe that they were told, and to accept what was given to them...And to brand any other thinking "communist" or "un-American".


Good thing we don't do THAT anymore.  Support the troops.

I liked radio, back in the day. It was something to keep in the background while you were working or playing. Except in the evening when the shows like The Green Hornet, etc were playing. This was when we would all sit around the radio as a family.

As a kid television was something I watched on Saturday morning, or often we watched the news in the evening just before bed.

[Adios]

It smells like Roger is writing a rant.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It smells like Roger is writing a rant.

It's percolating in the back of the cesspit I call my mind.

[Adios]

I won't write mine until after I read yours.

[The Johnny]

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hate^tm for a rant, so be it.

[Don Coyote]

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hate^tm for a rant, so be it.

That movie was only kinda like the book.

[The Johnny]

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hate^tm for a rant, so be it.

That movie was only kinda like the book.

Only saw the trailer.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hate^tm for a rant, so be it.

That movie was only kinda like the book.

Only saw the trailer.

So you saw a trailer of a remake of a remake of a film, and are thus condemning the book?

Wat? 

[Don Coyote]

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hate^tm for a rant, so be it.

That movie was only kinda like the book.

Only saw the trailer.

So you saw a trailer of a remake of a remake of a film, and are thus condemning the book?

Wat? 

So I saw this movie called "Legue of Extradinory Gentlemen" I thusly decree 20,000 Legues under the Sea to be a bad book because it had no ninjas.

[The Johnny]

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hate^tm for a rant, so be it.

That movie was only kinda like the book.

Only saw the trailer.

So you saw a trailer of a remake of a remake of a film, and are thus condemning the book?

Wat? 

That book wasnt a big hit down here, you are reacting as if i was raised in Amurrica.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Its just that ive only heard about it, never read it, and it didnt seem to have a strong case because Tom Cruise (was it him?) starred in the movie adaptation, and the theme symbolism seemed like crypto-nationalism in the form of "OH NO we are INVADED by OTHERS we must UNITE".

But hey, if it gives you synergy and Hate^tm for a rant, so be it.

That movie was only kinda like the book.

Only saw the trailer.

So you saw a trailer of a remake of a remake of a film, and are thus condemning the book?

Wat? 

That book wasnt a big hit down here, you are reacting as if i was raised in Amurrica.

He wasn't an American, either.  Do you think we Anglos are all the same, like Mexicans and people from Belize?  No.  We are very different.  For example, we drink coffee, and they drink this horrible poisonous shit they call "tea", just to gross out the French (which takes some doing, they eat snails).