50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

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  • Tylerdurden
    Banned
    • Jul 2006
    • 19903

    50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

    This cartoon predicts the future more than 60 years ago. You won't see anything like this taught in schools today. If you like political cartoons with insigh...
  • Cuyahoga Chuck
    # 7727
    • Dec 2003
    • 12984

    #2
    Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

    The word according to Youtube!
    "In the beginning was The Tube. And there was nothing on IT. But, one day, by the force of a mysterious power, pictures appeared and The Truth was revealed. And,it was good. .............."

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    • seanz
      Resilient?
      • Nov 2006
      • 23662

      #3
      Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

      I'm on dial-up.

      Is it "Fritz the Cat"?
      We don't know how lucky we are....

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      • Shang
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2000
        • 10021

        #4
        Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

        No, the 50 year old cartoon isn't prophetic. It was made for Harding College, a fundamentalist Christian collage based in Searcy, Arkansas. It presents a biased conservative view of American business, couched in simplistic terms. It appears to be talking down to the viewers, who presumably are simple minded.

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        • Phillip Allen
          new member
          • May 2002
          • 63618

          #5
          Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

          Good God Shane...the sentiment is accurate...keep em confused and you (government, et al) can plow em under

          I suppose you take the opposite view of the cartoon...?
          The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
          Personal failures are too important to be trusted to others.

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          • ishmael
            Banned
            • Jun 2000
            • 23518

            #6
            Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

            I can't watch it, dial up and all that.

            A cartoon is usually just a couple of frames, though the definition changed with TV. I'm hopelessly outdated.

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            • LeeG
              Senior Member
              • May 2002
              • 72803

              #7
              Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

              Originally posted by Phillip Allen
              Good God Shane...the sentiment is accurate...keep em confused and you (government, et al) can plow em under

              I suppose you take the opposite view of the cartoon...?
              interesting observation, if someone is critical of X and you agree with X then you suppose they take the opposite position. Consider a physical world where one can take a 360 degree perspective of an object on two planes and if someone takes a critical view of that object you immediately assume it's 180 degrees on the opposite side of the object from where you're standing. Maybe they're to one side and 4' lower looking up at the same thing you are.

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              • seanz
                Resilient?
                • Nov 2006
                • 23662

                #8
                Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

                LeeG
                You're over-complicating the issue....everybody knows that the cartoon world is two dimensional.
                We don't know how lucky we are....

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                • LeeG
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2002
                  • 72803

                  #9
                  Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

                  sure but the people reading it aren't two dimensional.

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                  • seanz
                    Resilient?
                    • Nov 2006
                    • 23662

                    #10
                    Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

                    Could you be more specific?
                    Are they one dimensional or three?
                    We don't know how lucky we are....

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                    • Phillip Allen
                      new member
                      • May 2002
                      • 63618

                      #11
                      Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

                      "I just love to see some of the most important and contentious issues facing our nation reduced to the intellectual level of an 8-year old"

                      and WHERE do you get your news...? from the news papers?
                      The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
                      Personal failures are too important to be trusted to others.

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                      • James McMullen
                        老板
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 12054

                        #12
                        Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

                        Notice how the bad guy huckster has darker skin than the hero, John Q. Public? 50 year old propaganda is more funny than prophetic, methinks.

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                        • LeeG
                          Senior Member
                          • May 2002
                          • 72803

                          #13
                          Re: 50 year old cartoon is prophetic.

                          "imported doubletalk"

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