Ruphus -> RE: Must-see docu on journalism, of a kind you don´t get to see too often (Nov. 17 2017 5:51:18)
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ORIGINAL: Arash So I watched the documentary you linked, but don't have the time to read the comments. But to me it looks like what he is trying to say (with much nicer words, to not upset us): Hey you stupid ignorant f?cks! If you want quality journalism in todays world, you need to pay and you need to stop to make yourself even more stupid than you already are. Or else those people and cooperations with huge amounts of money in their hand (in one hand) who actually do pay lots of money, will take over, even more than today, and there will be no single independent journalist left soon, since - guess what - they need to make a living too, just like you. And they have to adopt to YOUR PREFERENCES AS A VIEWER. Of course its also talk about mediocre journalism, etc. but the main culprit here are we ignorant people who are smartphone zombies and youtube trend junkies, watching useless **** in our free time, following idiots on twitter, and subbing to moronic "news channels" to make us feel important (which we are not)...not to make us smarter to vote for the right guy or find out the right "version" of scientific facts or whatever...but simply to entertain us. Honestly, we could have working democracy EVERYWHERE, right now. Its not the guys on top stopping us, its we the people, who are dumb, scared, ignorant and lazy. That makes for a good part of the problem, and among the info that could be doing us well would be some basics of pedagogics and psychology. The other part, not that minor either, is centuries of routines with autocracy. Means and manipulation over time have been refined to meticulous detail. I don´t know if you were around when the green party entered the German parliament, but that was an exemplary example of what happens when authentic aims of change manage to occur on broader base and how they will be neutralized. And when deemed necessary / time pressing there will be applied 'good ol´routines' still, as with Olof Palme, Uwe Barschel, Litwinenko and others. So, even if people were prepared for maturity psychologically (AND informed by quality media and educational system), it wouldn´t be all yet. Lesser even with upper caste´s control of the latter, plus economy and not at last power of state. By nature of the matter, and evidence of about 5000 years of history, it isn´t intending to freely give up an eldorado for any humane or reasonable consideration. quote:
ORIGINAL: Piwin quote:
no arrow nor dust cloud could prevent a riding into the sunset. Unless of course you took that arrow in the knee... [:D] BTW, I just saw that that da Vinci painting sold for 450M dollars. I'm quitting my job to focus on drawing better stick figures. [:D][:D] Let me be your manager. I already gave sample of promotion and of how to attract dressed-in-black blokes with extra long four-seasons cashmere scarfs. Considering quantity, you neeed to invest a day and put out bunches of artworks, though. (Me can assist. Am good with throwing blobs at canvas. -Maybe even per slingshot or longbow. Could also do escrima brush strokes.) Agents and gallery owners request quantity and 'interesting' personal record as precondition. (Maybe we can make you primary school class-mate with Gerhard Richter, or say that you grew up in a brothel / or that you had a sex-reversal, or maybe that you are a secret outcasted son of Margaret Thatcher who then was forced to make his way through Falkland favelas or such ... Or maybe all of it together. Man, that would shoot you through the roof!) - You need to lend me your yacht for a couple of weeks per year though, for fishing and show-off anchoring at the Cote d'Azur. Man, that could be healthy measure against the holes in my socks. Seriously, during news on the latest art record, I was thinking that this very sum would probably suffice to arrange for a halting of the extinct of most endangered, higher developed species. Now going to be hanging on a wall instead while the cream of the planet keeps perishing worse than before. With respect to Leonardo da Vinci, he would have certainly thought: "Sick as sick can be."
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