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Feral Cats Intro and Theme : "What's the Point?" for Saturday May 10'08
This entry was posted on 5/10/2008 9:16 AM and is filed under militarism,Racism,Martin Luther King,George Orwell,Economic Justice.
Radio Intro: May 10, 2008
I’m Lady Di, here with Deadrock Dave at The Watering Hole, a little liberal oasis where we invite you to join us, the feral cats of freedom coughing up hairballs of truth, yes….hairballs of truth from the junk food we’ve swallowed throughout the week from the fat cat news. Here at the Watering Hole we join with our friends, the border collies of sanity rounding up the strays that got away or, more accurately, were thrown away from the sub prime press.
We are not a bunch of fraidy cats or lap dogs. We march to that different drummer who plays that different tune. There’s a place for conformity and even some lock stepping when you have to build the barn or brand the calves. It’s a necessary part of the equation. But here we are asking people to think for themselves and not listen to the white noise of blather. To take a thought, an idea, a statement and turn it upside down and look at its belly. That is the great gift of democracy; the gift of disagreeing in an agreeable way.
Don’t just follow the leader, he may just be a Pied Piper. Jump out of the pot, you simmering frogs, I’m telling you it ain’t a Jacuzzi.
So let’s take the pot of the back burner, stir the pot, and get some food for thought. Call in with your hairballs of truth or strays that got away? Call in with something I don’t know. Call in with a favorite quote.
Our quote for this hour is: ( credit to Norman Solomon for roping this quote and other ideas for today's show in his book “Made Love, Got War”)
“We have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live.” Martin Luther King, JR in 1967 in “The Beyond Vietnam Speech”.
He continues:
“So much of modern life can be summarized in that suggestive phrase of Thoreau: “Improved means to an unimproved end.”
…When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.
When we foolishly minimize the internal of our lives and maximize the external, we sign the warrant for our own day of doom.
Our hope for creative living in this world house that we have inherited lies in our ability to re-establish the moral ends of our lives in personal character and social justice. [emphasis mine].
Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments…
We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
That's what our theme is for the next three hours; “What’s the Point?” Here we will make our own history and not regurgitate what's fed to us. Here we will use the old radio media to slow down and practice advice from the famous Method acting teaching Lee Strasberg " that the process of living demands the ability to respond, to make contact, and to communicate one's experience to another human being."
What's the point? Norman Solomon quotes columnists Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weisman who are dedicating their search for truth to the memories of their mothers. "We haven't figured out how to translate our fundamental decency into policy," they said. An end to suffering. An end to starvation. At end to war. If we can make bombs that can blow up the world 100 times over, if we can get information into teenier tinier devices, then shouldn't we be able to cure cancer or at least get a national health care plan? Shouldn't we be able to drop food and not bombs?
Since my younger sister's death from cancer, I have dedicated my spare time to finding the answers to these questions as well.
I’m Lady Di, here with Deadrock Dave at The Watering Hole, a little liberal oasis where we invite you to join us, the feral cats of freedom coughing up hairballs of truth, yes….hairballs of truth from the junk food we’ve swallowed throughout the week from the fat cat news. Here at the Watering Hole we join with our friends, the border collies of sanity rounding up the strays that got away or, more accurately, were thrown away from the sub prime press.
We are not a bunch of fraidy cats or lap dogs. We march to that different drummer who plays that different tune. There’s a place for conformity and even some lock stepping when you have to build the barn or brand the calves. It’s a necessary part of the equation. But here we are asking people to think for themselves and not listen to the white noise of blather. To take a thought, an idea, a statement and turn it upside down and look at its belly. That is the great gift of democracy; the gift of disagreeing in an agreeable way.
Don’t just follow the leader, he may just be a Pied Piper. Jump out of the pot, you simmering frogs, I’m telling you it ain’t a Jacuzzi.
So let’s take the pot of the back burner, stir the pot, and get some food for thought. Call in with your hairballs of truth or strays that got away? Call in with something I don’t know. Call in with a favorite quote.
Our quote for this hour is: ( credit to Norman Solomon for roping this quote and other ideas for today's show in his book “Made Love, Got War”)
“We have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live.” Martin Luther King, JR in 1967 in “The Beyond Vietnam Speech”.
He continues:
“So much of modern life can be summarized in that suggestive phrase of Thoreau: “Improved means to an unimproved end.”
…When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.
When we foolishly minimize the internal of our lives and maximize the external, we sign the warrant for our own day of doom.
Our hope for creative living in this world house that we have inherited lies in our ability to re-establish the moral ends of our lives in personal character and social justice. [emphasis mine].
Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments…
We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
That's what our theme is for the next three hours; “What’s the Point?” Here we will make our own history and not regurgitate what's fed to us. Here we will use the old radio media to slow down and practice advice from the famous Method acting teaching Lee Strasberg " that the process of living demands the ability to respond, to make contact, and to communicate one's experience to another human being."
What's the point? Norman Solomon quotes columnists Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weisman who are dedicating their search for truth to the memories of their mothers. "We haven't figured out how to translate our fundamental decency into policy," they said. An end to suffering. An end to starvation. At end to war. If we can make bombs that can blow up the world 100 times over, if we can get information into teenier tinier devices, then shouldn't we be able to cure cancer or at least get a national health care plan? Shouldn't we be able to drop food and not bombs?
Since my younger sister's death from cancer, I have dedicated my spare time to finding the answers to these questions as well.