From: Ant McWatt (antmcwatt@hotmail.co.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 16 2005 - 16:43:14 BST
Matt,
As they say - many a true word is spoken in jest!
"Matt Poot stated April 16th 2005:
>you missed out though on the rant about marketing and
>advertisers.............
The marketing routine is the one which first alerted me to Hicks. Yes, like
those quizzical marketing people I'm still waiting for the "catch-line".
>makes me laugh and think! watching this stuff is to die for!
Yes, if any marketing people are reading this “Don't forget now that
watching this stuff is to die for!” Hicks has a special place by his side
in heaven waiting for you right now.
>=--------------------------------=
>By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...kill yourself.
>Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I'm doing. No joke
>here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for
>what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself,
>kill yourself now. Now, back to the show. Seriously, I know the marketing
>people: 'There's gonna be a joke comin' up.' There's no fuckin' joke. Suck
>a tail pipe, hang yourself...borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy, do
>something...rid the world of your evil fuckin' presence.
>
>=-----------------------------------=
Ant McWatt comments:
As ever, behind the vitriol there is usually an important point behind
Hicks' routines. For instance, does having such a strong marketing presence
in the Western world make it a better place?
Is the general quality of life improved for everyone on this planet with
having so much money, resources and talent ploughed into advertising drugs
that dull the mind (e.g. alcohol), cause cancer (e.g. cigarettes – still
heavily advertised in the Third World), food that is unhealthy to eat (such
as that produced by the fast food giants) or highly unsafe products sold to
the public that are known to be so by their manufacturers (such as the late
70s Ford Pinto which exploded if hit from behind – Ford worked out that it
would be cheaper to pay the law suits rather than rectify the fault which
caused this). I highly doubt it.
>You know all that money we spend on the military ever year - trillions of
>dollars? Instead, if we use this money to feed and clothe the poor of this
>world, which it would do many times over, then we can explore space, inner
>and outer, together, as one race.
Yes, as David Buchanan would say, this one really kills me. You think what
the hell is going on. Are their masses of Arab hoards ready to invade
Colorado or London? And, of course, the answer is No. There are hell a lot
of people starving to death in Africa though. They may be some highly
pissed off young men who occasionally respond to the great injustices caused
by Western governments but these events just play into the hands of national
governments who like their people scared and worried. It makes the general
populace easier to manipulate, helps make an enormous amount of money for a
few and assists in introducing repressive freedom-limiting policies for the
rest of us. Very anti-MOQ which is concerned, above all, with having the
greatest freedom for as many people as possible i.e. not just for Bush and
his golfing buddies!
I could go on through all Hicks’ routines and observations (like the
anti-drugs TV documentaries with adverts for lager halfway through) though
his material is still available at www.sacred.com for anyone interested and
there are people on the website (such as Mark H and Arlo) who are better
informed than I am with these political issues concerned with Quality.
Best wishes,
Anthony.
MANY A TRUE WORD IS SPOKEN IN JEST! -
“Some truths, too painful or too likely to provoke, can be spoken only when
the listener has been disarmed by laughter.”
“A proverbial truth known for centuries, this notion was apparently first
recorded by Chaucer with the line, 'A man may seye full sooth (truth) in
game and pley,' from 'Canterbury Tales' (c. 1387). In 'King Lear' (1605),
William Shakespeare wrote, 'Jesters do oft prove prophets,' and some years
later, essentially the modern version was rendered in the 'Roxburghe Ballad'
(c. 1665): Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”
From "Wise Words and Wives' Tales: The Origins, Meanings and Time-Honored
Wisdom of Proverbs and Folk Sayings Olde and New" by Stuart Flexner and
Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993)
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