I find the question, Should Plants be issued a Bill of Rights? a worthy question for Mike Wallace (veteran correspondent of 60 Minutes) to ask of the Swiss government on his birthday, May 9th.
But according to the Public Broadcast Station's daily blog "PBS Engage", the true question of the day is:
"If you were a PBS programming executive, what would you choose to put on the air?"
Evidently the top representatives of our national public television are meeting in Palm Desert, California next week and by golly, they need the input of viewers.
So, you know, I answered their question, but not as eloquently as this Navy Vet.
PBS's higher purpose
On May 8th, 2008 Navy Vet says:Well said. I did my time on the carrier USS America, now sunk as target practice surplus instead of recycled. It's not their money, after all.
PBS and any respectable entity should be working tirelessly to unravel the lie that is the American consumer driven way of life. We're taught by the corporate owners of this country to buy plastic, disposable junk and generate more corporate taxes to fund a bloated and corrupt military government. Sure America dominates, but at what cost? We've turned into resource hogs, fast food hogs, materialistic hoarders of disposable junk and wage-dependant slaves to the whole process. The ultimate reason is to generate taxes to further bloat and corrupt the government.
We've been fooled into thinking the Federal Reserve is a government entity when it is in fact owned by private banking families executing their own agenda with our monetary system. Exposing that to the public would probably literally make heads roll, but it's the right thing to do for a public service that PBS professes to be.
War is the greatest profit making enterprise there is, and we've been propagandized into accepting an illegal war, funded by either consumer driven taxes or otherwise freely printed fiat currency (debt) that they are now just making up out of thin air. An extra 50 Billion for "supplemental" spending? "Sure!" say the rich and insulated lawmakers.
PBS has an obligation to educate the public about the Super Class, the rising global elite (search for Super Class on YouTube and the net to read what PBS should be alerting you to). These people are so rich and connected they care little about national boundaries and the rules of old. Media control is just one symptom of public interests being dominated by a small number of elite, self interested misers and egotists. PBS is instead glorifying the military machine with their documentaries. PBS might as well hold military propaganda parades like Russia and China do. It's what their masters would have them do.
Do the right thing, PBS. No more Public B*** S***. No more Public Betrayal Stories.
More Public Betterment Service.
I will just have to look up that "Super Class" bit. Please follow this link to the Engagement and make yerself be heard... even if you don't dig PBS or want Bill Moyers off the air...
My answer to today's question was:
I dig most of the PBS programming.
If we could limit the Brit comedy and plug repeats of excellent programs like "Saved by the Sun" on Nova (which I learned tremendously from) and, the more recent, "Sick Around The World" on Frontline.
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This topic has been so tragically overlooked. It is crucial that people start realizing the terrible effects of consumerism. Way to post!!! It is blogs like these that make me thankful for ProgressiveU and the forum available to us. This is the kind of reading material I've been looking for, something that challenges the very way I live. We all need a bit of challenging. AMERICA needs challenging.
Did you write what PBS show you'd like to see prime-time?
The Once-ler: Well, what do you want? I should shut down my factory, fire a hundred-thousand workers? Is that good economics, is that sound for the country?