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Related: About this forumA seriously depressing british comedy about government-sponsored terrorism.
And most fucked-up thing is that it really works like that.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)"Bernard, I have served eleven governments in the past thirty years. If I had believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the Common Market, and passionately committed to going into it. I would have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalising steel. And of denationalising it and renationalising it. On capital punishment, I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent abolitionist. I would've been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac; but above all, I would have been a stark, staring, raving schizophrenic."
Think that is my favorite lime in the whole series.
erronis
(15,290 posts)ZZenith
(4,122 posts)Must you go around flashing your petty private individual little conscience?
Such crisp and witty screenwriting they employ in other nations.
A Rakes Progress in 29:43.
erronis
(15,290 posts)The US social discourse just seems to be surface-level in-your-face. Innuendo? WTF is that?
Even Archie Bunker and Ralph Kramden (and the rest of the crew) were great at those "asides" that meant much more than the words.
Erudition is a tremendous thing to lose.