How true that cartoon was. Im only 17 years old and even I see what the hell is going on in our country. I was born free and will die free. That is not my quote but I use it as mine because that is how I feel. The restrictions and erosion of our rights is unexcusable and must be stopped right now. The American people need to see that we are a very unique country, and why we are the best is because we are free. Star and flag for this one.

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.

[edit on 23-10-2009 by Ahabstar]

This "cartoon" should precede every US political thread here, actually it should just be on the home page ready to view at any time.

This is a very good video. It makes me wish I lived during the years this was made, before we all bought Dr. Ism's cure-all. The only good thing about living now is that we can (try to) stop things before they get so bad that nobody will remember how things used to be.

S+F

WOW...that was awesome and definately worth watching.
thanks for posting it.
The same threats from 50 years ago have gained footing.
If only we could give people some "ism" so they know what it is REALLY about.

ism's are bad.....except capitalism, nothing to be ashamed of there

propaganda movies are so much fun. this one's particularly good. you guys are so right, this should be shown in schools, it's the perfect example of what to watch out for if you want to avoid being brain washed.

i can't believe people on ATS are happy for children to watch this drivel in the context which it was intended to be watched, it's blatant pro-NWO claptrap.

Originally posted by pieman
i can't believe people on ATS are happy for children to watch this drivel in the context which it was intended to be watched, it's blatant pro-NWO claptrap.

How is this "pro" NWO claptrap?

Also, what is a claptrap?
I'm having a hard time understanding your perspective. Particularly because you call this 'propaganda'.

i say it's a propaganda movie because that's what it is, it says so on a little caption at the start of the movie.

the clap trap element is is the misleading and inaccurate way it describes "america". it didn't even exist, as described, in 1948, when that movie was made. where's the mention of "to some, america is share cropping and coal dust pneumonia"?

do you need me to critique it scene by scene or will a general summation do, if you want it scene by scene you'll need to give me a day or two.

generally, the problem is that the movie reinforces the view that in order for there to be freedom in society there must be gross inequality and an elitist pyramidal structure. NWO claptrap.

[edit on 23/10/09 by pieman]

Originally posted by pieman
i say it's a propaganda movie because that's what it is, it says so on a little caption at the start of the movie.

the clap trap element is is the misleading and inaccurate way it describes "america". it didn't even exist, as described, in 1948, when that movie was made. where's the mention of "to some, america is share cropping and coal dust pneumonia"?

do you need me to critique it scene by scene or will a general summation do, if you want it scene by scene you'll need to give me a day or two.

generally, the problem is that the movie reinforces the view that in order for there to be freedom in society there must be gross inequality and an elitist pyramidal structure. NWO claptrap.

[edit on 23/10/09 by pieman]

The cartoon (excluding the captions of course) doesn't contain "an elitist pyramidal structure". It personifies the multiple social branches of a civilized community and points out that their reliance on each other actually improves the quality of life for the sum of it's parts. The video cites an emphasis on community, not a hierarchy. What video were you watching?

Did you watch the first 10 seconds and then become a fireball of cynicism and ignore the rest? If you need to dissect it scene for scene, please do.

Originally posted by pieman
ism's are bad.....except capitalism, nothing to be ashamed of there

propaganda movies are so much fun. this one's particularly good. you guys are so right, this should be shown in schools, it's the perfect example of what to watch out for if you want to avoid being brain washed.

i can't believe people on ATS are happy for children to watch this drivel in the context which it was intended to be watched, it's blatant pro-NWO claptrap.

+1

This thread reminds me of the "Traditional America" thread. Things were just as crooked back then as they are today. They cracked heads back then as they crack heads today. They weren't as far along with the stripping of rights I'll grant you. But the idea being foisted by cartoon that Capitalism isn't another form of ISM is pure propaganda. We have a corporatist/capitalistic society and all the same crap is still happening.

Trying to hearken back to some half-remembered fuzzy fantasy of what America was is not seeing it's policies and practices for what they were then.


[edit on 23-10-2009 by wanderingwaldo]

Everyone needs to watch that video!

isn't this cartoon itself a -ISM?

as of American Traditionalism?

freedom and liberty is great, but far more regulation is needed in today's society than yester-years beause of massive global issues we have, that we caused, mostly resulting from the very same thing that gave us the economical power to debate the idealogy of freedom today... the industrial revolution.

Originally posted by curiousaboutsky
isn't this cartoon itself a -ISM?

as of American Traditionalism?

freedom and liberty is great, but far more regulation is needed in today's society than yester-years beause of massive global issues we have, that we caused, mostly resulting from the very same thing that gave us the economical power to debate the idealogy of freedom today... the industrial revolution.

too bad there is substantially less industry in America today. wonder why that is? hmmm...