America is not what it once was
July 5, 2009
We got to see some of the fireworks through our back yard trees last night, though the booming went on and on well after the colors faded as local families continued the celebration.
For all the hoopla, I doubt if anyone really understood what they were celebrating since the America so depicted as part of the 4th of July isn’t the same America we celebrate today.
Our founding fathers would be appalled at what they would see today, and would have to do a significant bit of research to show the string of compromises that eventually led from where they are to the near opposite of freedom we celebrate today.
The news talked about the homeless in California and how society celebrates those who are part of the system, not those seeking to escape it.
If you don’t work and pay taxes, rent and pay taxes or own a home and pay taxes, you have no reason to exist.
Today’s America is designed to have you work and for everybody from the power and credit card companies to the government and local food markets to pick you pocket.
The concept of living free or different has always outraged good citizens.
The slaughter of Jews and Gypsies was as much this concept of ridding a society of people that do not support this slave state as it was racial.
No slave state dare have people who really are free wandering around as a bad example to the citizens trapped within it.
So we feed this hatred. We inspire our slaves to hate free people and then we find ways to get rid of them.
Hitler called this “the final solution.”
In America, we’re still searching for one that isn’t quite so obvious, but gets the same job done.
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People actually cried at Madoff’s sentencing.
It amazes me how harsh the law came down on the man for playing off the greed of the wealthy, when we similar activities by banks, credit card companies and utilities go on all the time.
The victims of these other crimes are simply not well-off enough to force anyone to throw bank presidents and credit card company executives in jail.
So in the end, the wealthy get so-called justice for being ripped off, while the poor remain victims.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to learn how to perform if I am to continue my experiments in film.
I have spent so much time worried about the technical education, I forget that film is drama.
I know how to do it, I just don’t do it on film.
Sharon has the ability to shape voices of stock characters. I know how to do something similar in portraying a banker, a bartender or a clerk. It’s the non-stock characters that throw me. Where do you find the soul of those?
The ensemble casts of various film makers, I’ve seen actors develop a single voice and use it again and again in various situations. But I’m taking on the task of multiple people, and need to find a way to shape them so that someone looking at my short films forget they are seeing the same person in each role.