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Just going to leave this here...I feel compelled to do so.
We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’
Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. (shouting) You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, g@@-d!*mit! My life has value!’
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
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At the DC march on Jan 21, I saw the sign
"So bad, even the introverts are here"
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In 2016, all the people like the ones being hectored in the quote finally did get mad, and did decide to do something about it.
Unfortunately, their solution was to elect Trump.
Can't argue with the other Jeff on that.
One must turn anger into positive action, not negative reaction.
Just that can and is happening, darkside as Kullen noted, that same anger pointed the wrong way, put us where we are.
People are mad as hell...but at the wrong folks, for the wrong reasons.
That is not to say that many of the issues facing the middle of America are not as tangled as a brier patch, but letting it get severely overgrown and thorny (to be flowery about it) got us right where we are.
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"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
- Aristotle
To which I would like to add that 'it is, however, entirely possible.'
I was wondering when someone would mention that Terquem.
Good quote IHIYC!
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I wish one my local libraries had A Face in the Crowd (1957) for loan.
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Good one Ambrosia! I will need to find some way to watch that!
Perhaps I should make this into the "Older movies still have lots to tell us" thread :) (they really do, film is a great thing...sometimes)
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All I can say is that I'm glad to see that others appreciate this pop culture touchstone.
And I can see the outrage that has been expressed, however poorly. I've got plenty of my own.
Though, of course:
"Be angry and do not sin, and do not let the sun set on your anger."
-- Ephesians 4:26, Aramaic Bible in Plain English
and:
"For the rage of man does not perform the righteousness of God."
-- James 1:20, Aramaic Bible in Plain English
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Tough to try to live in line with those two ideas, times like these.
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While we're doing pop culture quotes, I like this older era Dr. Who line:
"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."
Just a little something from the man in black...
But how I weep for those who've gone
Into rooms of grief and questioned wrong
But keep on killing
It's in the soul to feel such things
But weak to watch without speaking
Oh what mercy sadness brings
If God be willing
There is a train that's heading straight
To heaven's gate, to heaven's gate
And on the way, child and man
And woman wait, watch and wait
For redemption day
Fire rages in the streets
And swallows everything it meets
It's just an image often seen
On television
Come leaders, come you men of great
Let us hear you pontificate
Your many virtues laid to waste
And we aren't listening
What do you have for us today
Throw us a bone but save the plate
On why we waited til so late
Was there no oil to excavate
No riches in trade for the fate
Of every person who died in hate
Throw us a bone, you men of great
There is a train that's heading straight
To heaven's gate, to heaven's gate
And on the way, child and man
And woman wait, watch and wait
For redemption day
It's buried in the countryside
It's exploding in the shells at night
It's everywhere a baby cries
Freedom