50 year old cartoon about American Life - Must See!, page 1
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reply posted on 23-10-2009 @ 10:28 AM by Ahabstar
I will have to check this out later when I am not on the mobile setup. Darn slower connection speed. And I checked it out.

Horatio Alger-ism at its best. The modern commentary was interesting. A surprise that people in 1948 still had not returned the trust in banks was no shock to me. Many people that came through the depression did not return to banking. In fact, I would argue that banks did not fully recuperate until the dropping of the gold standard and the rise of the credit card and of course inflation.

Prior to the dropping of the gold standard, an average fair was for the week was roughly an ounce of gold in purchasing power. Quite different than today's average wage. With the credit cards and the extra printing of money throughout the 1970's , inflation rose to all time highs. Not only because there were more physical bills in the system but virtual money was being created at an exponential rate. 70's, 80's 90's up until about 2008 actually.

With 40 years of imaginary wealth, someone was bound to want to see it for themselves.

Now let's couple that with 50 yeas of rapid change. Post-WWII boom (lack of industry in other first world countries meant the US carried the slack for the world) Sexual revolution and Civil rights movement . (neither of these events were wrong and should have happened far earlier than they did but it added racism and sexism t the mix) Nixon caught with his hand in the cookie jar (yes there was other political corruptions previously--but this real brought out the Rep. vs. Dem. to the forefront--politism) and toady corporatism and globalism and environmentalism.

Sure the cartoon does warn against these things, but failed to prevent them. But we got the bigger houses, shiny items and fancy cars right?

An unheeded warning is as useless as ignoring the problem. Sadly, this is all this cartoon is.

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reply posted on 23-10-2009 @ 10:43 AM by gazerstar
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Wow. It is uncanny how relevant that old cartoon still is today. I wonder what would happen if Fox News featured it as a reminder to the people? I bet Glenn Beck, Shawn Hannity, and maybe even O'Reilly would. That would be one more reason for the current administration to villify them along with Fox News.

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reply posted on 23-10-2009 @ 11:07 AM by damwel
Originally posted by gazerstar
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post by patmac



Wow. It is uncanny how relevant that old cartoon still is today. I wonder what would happen if Fox News featured it as a reminder to the people? I bet Glenn Beck, Shawn Hannity, and maybe even O'Reilly would. That would be one more reason for the current administration to villify them along with Fox News.

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This would be the last thing they would show you. Everything Fox news has built has been possible by dividing us. Obama wasn't President for 2 days before I started to hear them rant about socialISM.



reply posted on 23-10-2009 @ 11:13 AM by Conclusion
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An excellent video and thank you for posting it. S&F. Greed seems to be the source to sale the soul. The love of money. Other countries have come up with ways that better government and they implement them. It would be nice to live in those times and have a job, or own a business, or be elected official. But change, according to evolution, is a natural change that will happen no matter what. So if we do not change with the world, politically speaking, we will not evolve to a more perfect government. We would remain stagnant, enjoying the freedoms that our government would only allow us to enjoy. True freedom would never be achieved.


reply posted on 23-10-2009 @ 12:46 PM by HunkaHunka
Originally posted by gazerstar
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post by patmac



Wow. It is uncanny how relevant that old cartoon still is today. I wonder what would happen if Fox News featured it as a reminder to the people? I bet Glenn Beck, Shawn Hannity, and maybe even O'Reilly would. That would be one more reason for the current administration to villify them along with Fox News.

[edit on 23-10-2009 by gazerstar]



Actually lots of this goes against what those folks you mention stand for....

I see Glenn Beck, Hannity, and Orielly as the Snake oil Salesman.


reply posted on 23-10-2009 @ 01:26 PM by paradigm619
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You're right about this being propaganda. If any of you disagree, let's take a look at the definition:

prop·a·gan·da (prŏp'ə-gān'də) n.

1. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.

2. Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause

dictionary.reference.com...


I'm not saying this necessarily supports the NWO, but either way it's still propaganda.


reply posted on 23-10-2009 @ 01:29 PM by SonicInfinity
Already being discussed here: www.abovetopsecret.com...

Although it's in a different forum, so I dunno. It's a bit unfair for that guy to get less replies and flags than a duplicate thread made months later, though.
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