PostsCharlie Chaplin, the superb closing speech from The Great Dictator, 70+ years old and still as relevant today as ever.
 July 3rd, 2007 |  Owen“Today there is no one to correct a lie once it is told. The media, thanks to Republicans, has been concentrated in few hands, and they are not the hands of newsmen. Corporate values rule. If lies sell, sell them. If listeners, viewers, and readers want confirmation of their resentments and beliefs, give it to them. Objectivity turns listeners off and is a money loser.” January 13th, 2007 | Owen December 15th, 2006 | OwenThe Diana enquiry report came out. Drunk driver trying to outrun paperazzi, in probably the worlds safest car, three people were not wearing seat belts. They died, the one who belted up survived, that says more about this than any conspiracy theory. Thinking of conspiracy, I feel really sorry for Mohamed Al-Fayed, I don’t blame him about his reaction because the British establishment -is- crap enough to have murdered her, but in this case an accident is the most plausible explanation.. And Al Fayed is a man who has lost his son and is in terrible grief, he has my deepest sympathy. September 7th, 2006 | Owen..the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. August 30th, 2006 | Owen“Ah, but that doesn’t matter in today’s politics. All you have to do is find a single instance of someone from the other side doing something similar to what you’re doing, and that makes it magically okay for you to continue doing it. There are no ethics anymore. Instead of people striving to be ethical, they just strive to find other people being unethical so they can excuse their own unethical behavior.” June 30th, 2006 | Owen“…you can drill into your kid that the internet is full of weird people and christians.” April 10th, 2006 | OwenThis is war. And wars for the customers’ hearts and minds are won by ridicule, bad manners and SHOUTING!!! And, above all else, never give in to reality. October 25th, 2005 | Owen“This is what the inherent failure of Wikipedia is. It’s that there’s a small set of content generators, a massive amount of wonks and twiddlers, and then a heaping amount of procedural whackjobs. And the mass of triddlers and procedural whackjobs means that the content generators stop being so and have to become content defenders..” June 12th, 2005 | Owen March 16th, 2005 | OwenAn informative article on MSNBC: |
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