Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Thankful?
Today isn't the cruelly named "thanksgiving" day, but the nearby church has a phrase on its readerboard:
WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR?
So I'll try to answer. Exactly NOTHING in the modern world. EVERYTHING in the modern world is infinitely demonic and holocaustal. If there's a precise antonym to thankful, that's how I feel.
I'm thankful for the mysterious and infinite gift of life, and I try in my tiny way to respond by making a bit of beauty and education, and providing service to courseware customers.
More importantly, I'm thankful to the writers and radio entertainers of the '30s and '40s who wrote EMPATHETIC DRAMA and CLEAN HUMOR to help people get through terrible times. Nobody in modern superhell is even bothering to write or create entertainment.
And then I'm thankful to the archivers and digitizers who have been working for the last 30 years, buying and trading old tapes and discs and digitizing the audio for modern use.
Those old programs weren't meant to be permanent. Many of them weren't even meant to be recorded. They were just ephemeral tossoffs, heard once and forgotten, done for minimal pay.
Nevertheless, the writers felt a DUTY to provide a real public service, including some education. Because of the preservers and retailers, the genuine entertainment is still instantly available in a hellish time with NO currently produced entertainment or music.
Labels: Entertainment, From rights to duties
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