[kj] super man

[iPat]

out on leave again Peter?


On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:21:17 +0100, peter.west410
<peter.west410 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
> *********Yes,But he had no choice in the matter did he.How else could he of
> handled the situation? He had around the clock carers and ample money.It's
> the same with Nelson Mandela,Everyone says"He spent 30 years in jail
> opposing apartheid"He had no other choice.If CR and NM could of avoided
> their situation ,They would have.*********
> 

is there a point here?



> ****************I ll think you ll find that the red tops do deal with the
> reality of peoples daily lives.They dont deal with World affairs or
> important issues because people just arnt interested People want to read
> about their favourite actor or musician rather than elections in some
> far-away place they ve never heard of*********************

yes and no. They capitalise on the fantasies that humans generally
indulge themselves in, except they perpetuate it as a drug on drip
feed so once hooked it becomes part of the daily ritual.



> **********People buy and read them ,because thats what they want,"The Sun"
> sells ten times more than "The Gaurdian".
>  They pay for it.They buy the newspapers,It's what they want.********

do you think that everyone knows what they want or that they are happy
to cling to convention, repitition, ritual etc in order to believe
that they are satisfied? On one hand you call yanks ignorant in one
post but then suggest that really they know what they want.


> **********It's only entertainment,Some people may use it as exscapism,But I
> can safely say onlt the dimmist of humans actually beleive they can be T C
> in MI.Come on,Even Tom Cruise cant do what that bloke does in Mission
> Impossible.It's entertainment***********


you ve got to stop watching One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Peter! Jack
Nicholsons charachter wasnt real.



> **********Why do you always pick the extremes,Pork Pie factory!!!!!!What
> percentage of people actually work in such jobs,And some people prefer
> non-thinking jobs********************

its a job, people work in mundane jobs everyday. Doesnt matter on the
title. Its the fact that we are simply fodder for the state that
encourages to indulge in fantasy, a point quite clearly demonstrated
in the film The Matrix to cite a paradoxical example.


> there is a forgotten population of people referred to as spastics
> 
> ************Now you are showing your age "spastics"was a charity,But changed
> their name about 15 years ago,most people of schoolage wont of heard the
> word spastic*************

my son used it the other week strangely. i pulled him up about it, he
had no idea of what it meant. I then made him sit down and listen to
Ian Drury some of which he liked. He'll use the word for shock value i
suppose, not that they know what they are shocking


> **********You really are making this up.Did nt you see the para-olympics on
> TV?As many disabled kids are being put into mainstreem schools as
> possible************

Peter, i see people employ mixed race workers and then in the pub
amongst their own kind refer to them as coons. You goto the football
and it champions itself on kicking out racism. Has it?
Education on one hand is having an effective approach, the threat of
legal action is also changing things. But is this changing the way
people look at - in this case - the disabled or is it merely scaring
them to play along?

I dont know the answer to that.
 
are you happy Peter?

-- 
iPat
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