Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Time Capsule
Our political classes have descended to a previously unimaginable depth of triviality, fraud, nonsense, and absolute ratshit*, now spending several weeks in wild and violent "debate" about one advertisement by MoveOn and one sentence by Rush.
Polistra is seeking refuge in an earlier time, when our political classes and
our entertainers reflected and aided the morale, knowledge and common sense of the people.
Here's the famed and easily parodied newscaster H. V. Kaltenborn, interviewed in 1956, discussing Chamberlain and Hitler, applying those lessons to the then-current fight against Russia. Pertinent again now, after the USSR's sabbatical in the '90s.
Listen.
A rousing morale-booster by Vincent Price in 1943, reminding us why a "Long Twilight Struggle" is just another name for defeat, and showing us a more appropriate use of the phrase "Long Twilight"!
Listen.
Finally, sheer beauty. Frank Munn singing 'Eileen' in 1938, reminding us of a time when music and art were intended as a refuge from ugliness and chaos, not the primary generator of ugliness and chaos.
Listen.
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* My profound apologies to ratshit, which is clean, pure, noble, consequential and heroic by comparison to our political class. ¶ 9:51 PM
Our political classes have descended to a previously unimaginable depth of triviality, fraud, nonsense, and absolute ratshit*, now spending several weeks in wild and violent "debate" about one advertisement by MoveOn and one sentence by Rush.
Polistra is seeking refuge in an earlier time, when our political classes and
our entertainers reflected and aided the morale, knowledge and common sense of the people.
Here's the famed and easily parodied newscaster H. V. Kaltenborn, interviewed in 1956, discussing Chamberlain and Hitler, applying those lessons to the then-current fight against Russia. Pertinent again now, after the USSR's sabbatical in the '90s.
Listen.
A rousing morale-booster by Vincent Price in 1943, reminding us why a "Long Twilight Struggle" is just another name for defeat, and showing us a more appropriate use of the phrase "Long Twilight"!
Listen.
Finally, sheer beauty. Frank Munn singing 'Eileen' in 1938, reminding us of a time when music and art were intended as a refuge from ugliness and chaos, not the primary generator of ugliness and chaos.
Listen.
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* My profound apologies to ratshit, which is clean, pure, noble, consequential and heroic by comparison to our political class. ¶ 9:51 PM
