Dickens - A Christmas Carol
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Dickens - A Christmas Carol
I have just finished watching the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol on the TCM channel. We all love A Christmas Carol. After all, what would Christmas be without it, right? All the beautful costumes. All the quaint London shops. All the snow banks on the street. And those ghosts! Which one is the coolest, huh? Ah, a Thomas Kincaid Christmas paradise!!!
Bah, humbug!
A Christmas Carol is a thirty-three year old man's dagger thrust at the Victorian ruling class. And what he says in the thrusting is this:
Listen up, you capitalist entrepreneurs! If you protect and assist the people who generate your profits and who are absolutely dependent upon you for your survival, then death will have no terrors for you. But if you abuse and degrade them, then the last thing that you will see in this world before you die are the fires of hell erupting through the floorboards to embrace you! Now choose how you will behave! Choose!
The unredeemed Ebenezer Scrooge was never more alive than he is in 2005, and the world never needed Jacob Marley and the three ghosts of Christmas more than it does right now. I hope that the filthy capitalist pigs who take in the Radio City Music Hall show with the wife and kiddies squirm in agony in their seats as they behold the fate that awaits them!
Plato accused art of being self-indulgent emotional masturbation, of no good whatsoever in this world. But Plato was not completely right --- he never knew Charles Dickens!
Bah, humbug!
A Christmas Carol is a thirty-three year old man's dagger thrust at the Victorian ruling class. And what he says in the thrusting is this:
Listen up, you capitalist entrepreneurs! If you protect and assist the people who generate your profits and who are absolutely dependent upon you for your survival, then death will have no terrors for you. But if you abuse and degrade them, then the last thing that you will see in this world before you die are the fires of hell erupting through the floorboards to embrace you! Now choose how you will behave! Choose!
The unredeemed Ebenezer Scrooge was never more alive than he is in 2005, and the world never needed Jacob Marley and the three ghosts of Christmas more than it does right now. I hope that the filthy capitalist pigs who take in the Radio City Music Hall show with the wife and kiddies squirm in agony in their seats as they behold the fate that awaits them!
Plato accused art of being self-indulgent emotional masturbation, of no good whatsoever in this world. But Plato was not completely right --- he never knew Charles Dickens!
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Here we are again... another Christmas....coming up soon.....
And it seems again like no matter how many times I've watched this movie, the people in charge have no worries about going to hell no matter how much pain and suffering they have caused on this world....
No matter what they have done, I can still make a difference by helping people who need my support, and yelling and screaming about the injustices that people face everyday, because there are people who listen....people who care about this world of every political persuasion and from every walk of life....
I like to think of what Yoko Ono said when John Lennon was murdered... we live in a war of the sane against the insane.....something that's been going on forever in this world....
They would like to turn this world into a mad house...we can't let that happen...
And it seems again like no matter how many times I've watched this movie, the people in charge have no worries about going to hell no matter how much pain and suffering they have caused on this world....
No matter what they have done, I can still make a difference by helping people who need my support, and yelling and screaming about the injustices that people face everyday, because there are people who listen....people who care about this world of every political persuasion and from every walk of life....
I like to think of what Yoko Ono said when John Lennon was murdered... we live in a war of the sane against the insane.....something that's been going on forever in this world....
They would like to turn this world into a mad house...we can't let that happen...
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. - John Lennon
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BeckySue wrote: If only there were billions of John and Yokos.
I can agree with you on the first person, but you are really
s............t.............r..........e...........t........c....h..............i......n.........g it on the last.
WTF? YOKO ONO?
You are referencing her as a good human being?
She is/was just some hanger-oner that whores out John Lennon for cash.
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
- Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
- Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
Paladin wrote: I can agree with you on the first person, but you are really
s............t.............r..........e...........t........c....h..............i......n.........g it on the last.
WTF? YOKO ONO?
You are referencing her as a good human being?
She is/was just some hanger-oner that whores out John Lennon for cash.
Get a life or buy a vowel or (at least) get your head out of your bum!
.......or you could join the Marines.
Just quit ypour infrantile bellyaching about nothing.
You are quite boring.
Corvid wrote: Get a life or buy a vowel or (at least) get your head out of your bum!
.......or you could join the Marines.
Just quit ypour infrantile bellyaching about nothing.
You are quite boring.
Posting under the influence?:D Or just extremely unhinged?
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
- Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
- Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
Re: Dickens - A Christmas Carol
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