"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

"Network", a great movie!! Filmed in 1976, it's still relevant today, probably even more so! Honestly, it's always been relevant during our lifetimes. I LOVE this movie, always have! One of the greatest films ever produced.

If you read (liberal) Wikipedia about this movie you will see an overall negative slant. Of course! You know they would do this; they all want to adopt the Communist lifestyle. It's both amazing and sad at the same time. Liberals are just that uninformed and clueless! They want something for free, regardless of cost or consideration! They're sad, and most are incorrigible, on their very best day.

We live in trying times. I hope things get better for our "yutes" (from 'My Cousin Vinny'...for those who remember it).

(08-16-2025, 09:47 PM)FCD Wrote: "Network", a great movie!!  Filmed in 1976, it's still relevant today, probably even more so!  Honestly, it's always been relevant during our lifetimes.  I LOVE this movie, always have!  One of the greatest films ever produced.

If you read (liberal) Wikipedia about this movie you will see an overall negative slant.  Of course!  You know they would do this; they all want to adopt the Communist lifestyle.  It's both amazing and sad at the same time.  Liberals are just that uninformed and clueless!  They want something for free, regardless of cost or consideration!  They're sad, and most are incorrigible, on their very best day.

We live in trying times.  I hope things get better for our "yutes" (from 'My Cousin Vinny'...for those who remember it).

I won't tell you exactly how this came to mind, but in all honesty I was shocked at the date. When I watched this segment of the movie, it is so relevant now, I had to believe that scene was timeless. It applies so well to these times it is crazy, and if people did this, shout out their windows, things will change. I watched it twice and smiled while it almost brought a tear to my eyes.

(08-16-2025, 10:35 PM)Michigan Swampbuck Wrote: I won't tell you exactly how this came to mind, but in all honesty I was shocked at the date. When I watched this segment of the movie, it is so relevant now, I had to believe that scene was timeless. It applies so well to these times it is crazy, and if people did this, shout out their windows, things will change. I watched it twice and smiled while it almost brought a tear to my eyes.

Watch the whole movie!!  It's enlightening.  It basically tells the story of the times we live in today, though it was made 49 years ago today!  The ending is especially relevant, especially the final line.

It's a hard movie to watch.  It was hard then, and it's hard now, for the same reasons...it's so real.  It really makes you want to go out on your balcony, or open your window, and scream..."I'm Mad as Hell, and I'm not gonna' take it anymore!!"

I've always felt if the people of America started screaming this...everywhere, all the time...that the government would have no choice but to change.  I felt it very strongly then, and I still feel it now!

You know, I thank you for bringing up this clip (and movie reference) because quite honestly I'd forgotten about it.  Now it is fresh in my mind again.  I remember back then how all the "authorities" and "critics" tried to downplay the movie like it was satirical garbage.  It wasn't; it was real (and they very well knew it)!! It didn't fit the 'narrative' (and they knew that too)!!

(08-16-2025, 09:00 PM)Michigan Swampbuck Wrote: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Honestly, I feel like I'm beyond being pissed off. After watching the multitudes roll up their sleeves and line up for the death-jab back in ... What was it, 2021? ... I have come to the conclusion that the whole damn system is rotten to the core and most people are perfectly content with that. My own son told me, when I asked him to think for himself, "I don't need to think for myself." 

OK...

A mantra of mine of late is George Carlin's statement about the One Big Club. I probably repeat that my wife 4 or 5 times a week. Even she is still trying to have some level of faith in the system.



I have come to think of the jabs as an example of what I call "unnatural selection." Just as natural selection thins out the herd by eliminating the weak, I figure unnatural selection does that by eliminating the stupid, the simple-minded. I do feel for people who took it because they felt that they had no choice in order to keep feeding their family as I was not in a position where I had to make that choice, but for anybody who rolled up their sleeve and lined up willingly and is now suffering from the effects, I have no sympathy; nothing but disdain. 

I feel like I am watching the final acts of a tragicomedy and I'm running out of popcorn. 

No, I'm not pissed off anymore. I'm just wishing the show would just wrap up. I don't even know what that'd mean, but I don't really care.

(08-17-2025, 12:10 AM)AwakeNotWoke Wrote: Honestly, I feel like I'm beyond being pissed off. After watching the multitudes roll up their sleeves and line up for the death-jab back in ... What was it, 2021? ... I have come to the conclusion that the whole damn system is rotten to the core and most people are perfectly content with that. My own son told me, when I asked him to think for himself, "I don't need to think for myself." 

OK...

A mantra of mine of late is George Carlin's statement about the One Big Club. I probably repeat that my wife 4 or 5 times a week. Even she is still trying to have some level of faith in the system.



I have come to think of the jabs as an example of what I call "unnatural selection." Just as natural selection thins out the herd by eliminating the weak, I figure unnatural selection does that by eliminating the stupid, the simple-minded. I do feel for people who took it because they felt that they had no choice in order to keep feeding their family as I was not in a position where I had to make that choice, but for anybody who rolled up their sleeve and lined up willingly and is now suffering from the effects, I have no sympathy; nothing but disdain. 

I feel like I am watching the final acts of a tragicomedy and I'm running out of popcorn. 

No, I'm not pissed off anymore. I'm just wishing the show would just wrap up. I don't even know what that'd mean, but I don't really care.

I've thought about what you have said about your son, I remember that since you mentioned it before. At first I thought, "typical of a youngster to say such a thing", but now with AI, no one really needs to think for themselves any longer, or think at all for that matter. When most things are fully automated and service robots are common place, no one will do anything either.

The late-great George Carlin. I have no problem not being in the big club, I like smaller, more personal groups to join.