Comments on: Army@Love http://www.radioopensource.org/armylove/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:52:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Redcatcher http://www.radioopensource.org/armylove/#comment-86787 Redcatcher Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:18:53 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=985#comment-86787 [This comment has been deleted. Please refer to <a href="http://www.radioopensource.org/commenting-guidelines/" rel="nofollow">the rules</a> -- Greta] [This comment has been deleted. Please refer to the rules -- Greta]

]]> By: Lumière http://www.radioopensource.org/armylove/#comment-86786 Lumière Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:57:29 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=985#comment-86786 I’ve been wondering how much Jason collected on the bet to get ‘jack-shack’ spoken on air. The Military and the Monetary, get together whenever they think its necessary, They turn our brothers and sisters into mercenaries, they are turning the planet into a cemetery. The Military and the Monetary, use the media as intermediaries, they are determined to keep the citizens secondary, they make so many decisions that are arbitrary. --Gil Scott Heron I’ve been wondering how much Jason collected on the bet to get ‘jack-shack’ spoken on air.

The Military and the Monetary,

get together whenever they think its necessary,

They turn our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,

they are turning the planet into a cemetery.

The Military and the Monetary,

use the media as intermediaries,

they are determined to keep the citizens secondary,

they make so many decisions that are arbitrary.

–Gil Scott Heron

]]> By: herbert browne http://www.radioopensource.org/armylove/#comment-86785 herbert browne Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:48:43 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=985#comment-86785 ps- anyone recall Vaughn Bode's "Deadbone" (from around the time of our last major "conflict" among the leftovers of European Colonization)? ^..^ ps- anyone recall Vaughn Bode’s “Deadbone” (from around the time of our last major “conflict” among the leftovers of European Colonization)? ^..^

]]> By: herbert browne http://www.radioopensource.org/armylove/#comment-86784 herbert browne Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:43:49 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=985#comment-86784 This 'toon troubled me- a hippy lad of Puritan stock- until I had time to dwell on it a bit... and realized that it could be seen, from the perspective of Allied Signal, Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, DuPont, General Electric, GM, et al as the eqivalent to Marlboro's "Cowboy." As the Prime Directive of America can be found emanating from the Pentagon, ever since WWII "saved" us from the Great Depression (and thereby earned our "Undying thanks" as a nation beholden to Military Might), this does wonders in their eternal quest to sell the notion of "taking a chance on being sent to Hell for a while," in return for a gov't job- including room & board- and a chance for educational & social advancement. Hot... Sexy... & a little Naughty... but with none of the cultural disjunct of the "naughtiness" that, say, shooting someone from 400 yards away- someone with whom you have no personal beef- that you don't even know (& don't have to think about, because "you're following orders, man"- eleven time zones from Home)- may bring to bear. Ahhh, Yes- "Why don't we do it in the Road"- indeed... for God & Country, and The Folks Back Home, and A Paycheck, and a shot at College, and... because I'm young & horny & nervous... but feel immortal, right here, right now... So, "Be all you can be... with an erection, too" O existential warriors... ^..^ This ‘toon troubled me- a hippy lad of Puritan stock- until I had time to dwell on it a bit… and realized that it could be seen, from the perspective of Allied Signal, Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, DuPont, General Electric, GM, et al as the eqivalent to Marlboro’s “Cowboy.” As the Prime Directive of America can be found emanating from the Pentagon, ever since WWII “saved” us from the Great Depression (and thereby earned our “Undying thanks” as a nation beholden to Military Might), this does wonders in their eternal quest to sell the notion of “taking a chance on being sent to Hell for a while,” in return for a gov’t job- including room & board- and a chance for educational & social advancement. Hot… Sexy… & a little Naughty… but with none of the cultural disjunct of the “naughtiness” that, say, shooting someone from 400 yards away- someone with whom you have no personal beef- that you don’t even know (& don’t have to think about, because “you’re following orders, man”- eleven time zones from Home)- may bring to bear. Ahhh, Yes- “Why don’t we do it in the Road”- indeed… for God & Country, and The Folks Back Home, and A Paycheck, and a shot at College, and… because I’m young & horny & nervous… but feel immortal, right here, right now… So, “Be all you can be… with an erection, too” O existential warriors… ^..^

]]> By: Lumière http://www.radioopensource.org/armylove/#comment-86783 Lumière Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:04:10 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=985#comment-86783 “War exacerbates everything, they say.” Exacerbates everything? I thought I heard the guy on the show say “masturbates everywhere”. “War exacerbates everything, they say.”

Exacerbates everything?

I thought I heard the guy on the show say “masturbates everywhere”.

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