nutty on the outside but dense with substance on the inside, a short collage concerning the hierarchy to be found within our culture and what we may surmise of it all. Fun or NOT according to your perspective.
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with time passing we briefly tune through our cultural media and settle into a piece about listening to thoughts and then listen to some thoughts concerning our country and its history. How some currently view it all and what the prophetic George Orwell eluded to back in the middle of the last century is the heart of this endeavor. With supportive music, some satire and even an intermission thrown in.
Commentary by: (All Orwell pieces from his work 1984 - ISBN1556905807) The Importance of History (3 dispersed segments) by Howard Zinn (1:36 through 4:24) Who Controls the Past by Orwell (2:03 to 2:11) Founding Myth - City On the Hill by Morris Berman (4:26 to 4:54) All Nations Believe by Michael Parenti (5:07 to 5:35) About Our Founding Fathers by Michael Parenti (5:35 to 5:36) Madison and the Democratic Deficit by Noam Chomsky (6:08 to 6:41) Our Fathers Looked Out for Their Own by Michael Parenti (6:45 to 7:55) Looking at USA from the Outside by Morris Berman (8:36 to 9:09) Still A Desire to Fix Things by Morris Berman (9:23 to 9:49) What Kind of People Control this World by Orwell (8:44 to14:30) Dangers of the Machine to Hierarchy by Orwell (15:17 to 15:55) Increased Wealth Destroys Hierarchy by Orwell (16:05 to 17:08) Proletariat impotency by Orwell (17:25 to 18:11) What War Accomplishes by Orwell (18:10 to 20:13) Thought Crime by Orwell (28:30 to 29:19)
Music (complete or excerpts): Battle Hymn Of The Republic (excerpt) from the God Bless America album God Bless America (excerpts) from the God Bless America album Vote Republican (excerpt) by Roy Zimmerman Yes We Can⦠But by Harry Shearer and Obama (from Le Show 10-31-10) Dangerous Times (excerpt) by Chuck Brodsky Uber-Cartel vs. Peasants of the Dawn by Rodger Mason
FX or short supportive segments: Smash The Control Machine (excerpt) by Otep Think a Thought (excerpt) by Ken Nordine Intermission by unknown Tech Progress & Whats Real by Sean Kennedy (from Tales of After Now) and a bunch of othersâ¦
URLs of note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkNj00lBDHo http://www.harryshearer.com/news/le_show/
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