Quote:NightskyeB4Dawn wrote:
"All the world is but a stage.
I can see those at the wheel taking in your face control. They don't have to hide anymore.
They have us right where they want us. We are full on Paloved.
I swear over half the time I feel trapped on "The 13th Floor."
When are we going to stop being& Sneetches?"
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I can appreciate your perception of where the usually-tedious political road has now become a busy highway
of over-embellish oratory with tones not-far from the realms of a comedy televison show.
The school-yard name-calling had little effect -regardless of what the media pretended it had reported, on the
average person on the street and with the exception of the few who are still clinging to it for ratings-purposes,
it's slowly dying away. The reason was that it was a bad tactic on many levels, but the worst was it allowed
some to see what was the real division in major western countries.
It isn't the colour of skin, sexual preference or disability, it's today's social class structure.
When President John Kennedy stated "Ich bin ein Berliner", he was jokingly using the German language to get
across his message of anti-communist to those of West Berlin. Today, many politicians in the US employ the
accents of the region they're attempting persuade. Why...? because it's now seen as a patronising manner by
those of a certain social stratum that believes those they wish to seek favour with are unable to understand
the usual 'High-Speak' of the halls of power.
The insulting is so obvious and yet, nobody in their inner-circles suggests to them that it could be deemed as
such. The patent falsehoods are now part of the system too and it all just comes-off as vaudeville or as in the
UK, comedic farces like below.
In today's world of denigrating infotainment, JFK would've been advised to break the ice with West Berliners
with this:
Read The TV Guide, yer' don't need a TV.