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Your punishment is the knowledge that you spent two hours on Yahoo! Answers. While you were there, did you find out how babby is formed?
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Yes, I have.
While an interesting satire of the society of its day its challenges to that society fall short in my opinion: as if the only problem with the USA was Arabs buying US assets! Oligarchy and class dictatorship are the problems, not the skin colour of the people who own us.
As far as the vital and far-reaching question of the "the current 2011 technological-online-cultural zeitgeist" compared with that of the film goes, I think the biggest change is that content creation is now available to almost anyone in the Western world who cares to try, whereas in Network's time only the very rich had any sort of access to tools of mass communication.
The destruction of the authority of the large networks has continued and accelerated in the last 40-odd years. It's difficult for me, a 39-year-old, to remember what it was like when the majority of people respected the news and entertainment media, instead of holding most of it in contempt. And yet most of that change has happened while I've been alive!
One thing that strikes me that remains the same today, or is even worse, as in the time of Network is impotent rage. Network's "I'm as mad as hell and I', not going to take it any more!" is today's person on Twitter who thinks they are being dreadfully radical by making sneering comments about right-wingers, while never building an organisation to take control of society away from them. Network at least had mass rage, that could maybe have been built into something, while today hipsters and tea-partiers abuse each other while the rich and powerful enjoy the show. -
No, but I suspect if I liked red wine I would have!
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I hope I am right that there is nothing. Total oblivion. Life is too precious to wait until a possible afterlife.
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About 97%, yes. That is, I don't think most racism and most bigotry should be met with the power of the state, but should be defeated in political struggle.
Having said that, as a person who's copped a lot less bigotry than many people, in the last few months I've realised that for this stance to be meaningful, it has to be combined with a willingness to help people who've put up with bigotry their whole lives get strong enough to not need what protection they can get from the State.
Otherwise, the ideal of free speech will have no attraction to people who've finally got hold of a bit of state power and are using it to fight what they've been putting up with for ever. -
He was famous back in March, right?
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Take careful notes on how I felt and how people behaved towards me. Also, shag my brains out.
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I can't even think of too many political journalists who've done that.
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Eggs and butter, please!
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It's been a good year so far, so the speed doesn't worry me. I REALLY want journalism work.
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Yeah, when I get a good question and can think of a good answer.
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I don't know about a boycott, but I already recommend people get an account on identi.ca, which is a sort of open source version of Twitter. If Twitter does something to really piss a lot of people off, it's sitting there as an alternative
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Admit to someone I had a crush on them...I hate admitting stuff like that, I fear humiliation and rejections and clam up tight while, so I'm told, still being obvious.
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The roast pumpkin, pine nut, cream cheese and...other stuff...pizza my friend made me earlier tonight. Yum!
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The Goodies
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Homo Sapiens
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Hey there! What's interesting you today?
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I learn quickly, I'm enthusiastic, I refuse to submit to domestic blindness, I am a good listener, and I have a quick wit.
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David Jackmanson’s Bio
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