[78-L] Yawn - The End

[Taylor Bowie]

I recently learned that the earth will crash into the sun in about 
12,000,000,000 years.

So why the Hell am I bothering with all these 78s?

T



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Thornton" <fnarf at comcast.net>
To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Yawn


> It's a miracle we're all still here, seeing as how civilization has been 
> in
> decline for over 6,000 years.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Taylor Bowie
>> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 8:00 PM
>> To: 78-L Mail List
>> Subject: [78-L] Yawn
>>
>> We are in receipt of more cheery pronouncements from the Sage of the
>> Northlands.   Generally I think life is pretty good,  but
>> some people seem
>> determined to convince everyone else that life is actually
>> terrible.  What a
>> waste of energy,  especially when the same rant is stated and
>> restated for
>> the umpteenth time.
>>
>> I recall from my seventh grade Social Studies class that
>> there is a lot of
>> natural gas in Canada.  Now I know where it comes from.
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 7:41 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Michael Jackson. A Balanced View.
>>
>>
>> > (see END...WAY down there!)
>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > From: "Donna Halper" <dlh at donnahalper.com>
>> >> And that has long been a pet peeve of mine.  Not about Michael per
>> >> se, but about what has been called (accurately) by other posters to
>> >> this thread our celebrity dominated culture.  McLuhan was
>> right about
>> >> TV contributing to shorter attention spans.  I mean, Farrah Fawcett
>> >> (another celebrity) dies in the morning and all the major
>> TV outlets
>> >> stop to mention and mourn her passing.  But by dinnertime, she's
>> >> yesterday's news and everything is all-Michael all the time.  Okay
>> >> fine, his story is perfect for the tabloid nature of cable-- it has
>> >> mystery, scandal, and a protagonist who (like him or hate
>> him) was a
>> >> bit eccentric.  But what I found odd was how NEWS people and
>> >> POLITICAL commentators were forced into overdrive to suddenly treat
>> >> this like the most important thing that ever happened.  I
>> mean Keith
>> >> Olbermann and David Shuster doing 4 hours each (!) of live Michael
>> >> Jackson coverage?  Anderson Cooper pausing to remember how he saw
>> >> Michael at Studio 54.  OMG OMG OMG.  Reporters (and fans) talking
>> >> about Michael as if he had been some kind of saint who walked among
>> >> us.  Even if his life had no scandals at all, he was in
>> fact NOT the
>> >> saviour of mankind and NOT a major factor in world events.  Yes, he
>> >> made a lot of people happy and he sold a lot of records and he
>> >> absolutely did a lot of charity work.  But 24 hour coverage of his
>> >> passing and its effect on people?  Oh please.  I was not a fan of
>> >> Ronald Reagan, but I understood the need to do thorough
>> coverage when
>> >> he died.  I'm not a Catholic, but when the Pope died, I totally
>> >> understood why this was an event worthy of lots of attention.  But
>> >> Michael Jackson?  Not so much.
>> >>
>> >> And somewhere in South Carolina, Governor Mark Sanford was feeling
>> >> very lucky, since his own scandal got pushed off the front burner,
>> >> and whether the media should have given that so much coverage is an
>> >> open question as well.  (Disclaimer-- I never liked the guy, never
>> >> thought he was a good governor, and when my friends on the
>> right talk
>> >> about how Republicans are the party of Family Values, my eyes glaze
>> >> over.  BUT, once the scandal had unfolded, I kind of felt
>> it was time
>> >> to move on to whatever the next thing was.  My sympathies are with
>> >> the governor's wife and kids, none of whom, I am sure, ever wanted
>> >> their personal problems made fodder to cable news...)
>> >>
>> >> But what really annoys me is that many of these cable channel and
>> >> newspapers have cut back their international coverage and closed
>> >> their international bureaus to save money.  Cover Iran?  Can't do
>> >> it-- paranoid regime, and the few reporters still there got tossed
>> >> out. Cover Africa?  No thanks.  Viewers don't care, or so we are
>> >> told.  Cover Latin America?  Yeah, if Hugo Chavez says something
>> >> crazy, we'll be there.  And if drug lords in Columbia are caught,
>> >> we'll parachute some journalists in to report, and then parachute
>> >> them back out again.
>> >>
>> >> And the most frustrating thing of all-- Michael Jackson
>> coverage got
>> >> Fox (!), CNN and even MSNBC some of the biggest ratings the three
>> >> have had since the presidential election.  People say they are
>> >> shocked and disgusted by all that tabloid coverage, but
>> boy howdy, do
>> >> they all watch it!!!
>> >>
>> > I was VERY fortunate (IMO) to have grown up WITHOUT television
>> > (well, I did go to a downstairs neighbour's place to watch
>> Howdy Doody
>> > afternoons?!). I was twelve before my family FINALLY bought a new
>> > Zenith 21" table model TV...and its programs NEVER fascinated me
>> > to the point of "forget EVERYTHING! Such&Such is on!!" This in turn
>> > has let me, over the years, take a "disinterested,
>> uninvolved outsider"
>> > view of television and its effect on western society!!
>> >
>> > My conclusion?! Television has, since its early-fifties
>> introduction, been
>> > completely and totally responsible for the serious...nay,
>> critical...
>> > decline in human society we have seen over those decades!!
>> >
>> > I grew up in small-town Illinois. What entertainment we enjoyed was
>> > created by ourselves...pot-luck dinners, high-school plays and the
>> > (square) dances, played by a live combo from the next village! All
>> > of these gathered virtually ALL the citizens (usually at the local
>> > high-school gym!).
>> >
>> > Then, in late 1953, Waynesville could receive TV!!! By 1955,
>> > the local "events" had faded out...no one showed up, since they
>> > were all seated in front of their TV set! Further, the
>> local children
>> > did NOT learn morals and mores from their parents as they had
>> > in previous generations...instead, they learned them from television
>> > programs created with the aim of attracting as large an audience
>> > as possible! The message given us by our TV sets was succinct
>> > and simple..."GET MORE MONEY!!" This was 180 degrees
>> > out of phase with what had held our little farming-based
>> > community together...in fact, the FIRST step in "get more money"
>> > was MOVE TO THE BIG CITY!
>> >
>> > So...we now have a greed-driven chaos instead of a society! We
>> > claimed to be surprised when bank executives issued themselves
>> > 7-figure "bonuses" out of their "bail-out" money...?! Well, TV
>> > explains that quite well...?!
>> >
>> > And one can now buy HDTV sets with screens only slightly
>> > smaller than Ohio...and see XXI-Jahrhundert idiocy very nearly
>> > LIFE-SIZE!
>> >
>> > Fortunately, my predicted life span tells me I shall only have to
>> > endure this b***roar for about two decades (unless society
>> > TOTALLY collapses...quite possible...or the Muslim forces
>> > elect to nuke Oshawa [gawdknowswhy?!])
>> >
>> > Thus spaketh Steven C...?!
>> >
>> > ...stevenc
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