Seventeen - 5/21/38 – Murder on Approval:
The announcer starts with, “Ladies and
Gentlemen, to stay at the top and meet the competition of the underworld’s
keenest minds, the Shadow still has to be better than any of them. And it’s the
same way with tires…” I often complain about these old time commercials but,
when you hear them, well, it also give me a thrill to imagine people all
sitting in there living rooms or kitchens together while listening all across
the country. What was the mindset then? Do they want these golden new tires or
do they need the car first?
Oh, here we go… this one starts out with a
military guy (a general I think) asking a professor if the viral agent that he
produced can really infect large numbers of people as claimed, “To cause more
deaths in an army than all the guns in the world?” Most ingenious inventions
begin with the best intent (yea right!). But somewhere along the line a greed
factor gets added to the pot, and once mixed in… (cue the heavy organ music)
someone will be used as a guinea pig to prove the effectiveness and then a
value can be exploited from those seeking power !!
I love how the writers find new and fresh
ways to place Lamont and Margo at a function that will eventually tie in to the
plot. Tonight, they are at a diner party at a military installation. It just so
happens to be the same one where the test was to be held to prove to validity
of the chemical agent (cuing more organ chords dah dah dah!).
Lamont wonders aloud, “Maybe it’s some new
form of oriental plague?” But it seems to be, at the moment, to be similar to
the book by Max Brooks, “World War Z”. The one I haven’t read yet, but is
actually ‘in transit’ to the library I find myself sitting. I did watch the
movie one week ago. I bought a ‘toasted’ Spicy Italian from Subway and had them
place each half in separate bags so they would fit into my pants pockets
easier. It was a great pleasure to sit in the theater (only three other people)
and munching down a warm sandwich instead of paying for popcorn. I took a super
large slice of pepperoni pizza under my shirt to the latest Star Trek film. But
I had to wait until movie got very loud because the bag holding the slice was
noisy. If you take in a can of soda, I would recommend faking a sneeze when you
popped the top.
I am jolted back from my thought-tangent by
the producers of the Shadow show. They’re asking the audience to imagine
themselves out driving at night when it’s raining. All of a sudden you must
quickly use your breaks and the Shadow then asks, “Will your tires slip or
grip?” Wow! They really like cuing up the heavy organ tunes don’t they. Just as
my mind was starting to wander down a path about how people are doing horrible
things to others in order to gain power or acquire wealth. Well, maybe it’s a
‘Martha Stewart’ (A Good Thing) that I didn’t go too far down that thought
path… thinking about how sick some people are causes me a kind of distress
similar to drinking too much coffee. When I have a chance to converse or debate
the issues with others I enjoy the challenge. But when I am alone in a public
or private place I would rather not.
When people consider using chemical agents
for warfare or evil reasons it makes me wonder why we have survived as a race
this long . . .
Here's a Great Subject
to Start a Debate: Watch the film, or read the book, “Half the
Sky” Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
You can find
information about it on the web site of PBS. Be prepared for a long session of
tears / laughter, as you watch examples of brutal oppression by people
against their own. These are balanced by the many ways that women around our
world are overcoming this fear-based oppression and rising up. (I Have tears in
my eyes as I write this…) I’ve just decided to create a Post for the three
readers of my Blog about this powerful documentary.
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Eighteen - 6/05/38 – Hypnotized Audience:
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of
men (cue evil laughing) the Shadow knows!”
“The Shadow, Lamont Cranston, a man of
wealth, a student of science, and a master of other people’s minds, devotes his
life to righting wrongs, protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty.
Using advanced methods that may ultimately become available to law enforcement
agencies, Cranston is known to the Underworld as The Shadow. Never seen, only
heard… as haunting to superstitious minds as a ghost, as inevitable as a guilty
conscious. The Shadow’s true identity is known only to his constant friend and
aid, Margo Lane.”
This episode begins with us hearing series
secretive sounding foreign accents that are speaking of a plot to hypnotize a
group of people in order to get a comrade and brother, a brutal convicted
murderer, free from the prison that holds him. Ye again, Lamont and Margo are
at the same performance that the Governor is, and exactly in the same place
these evildoers are plotting (more organ music). Lamont suddenly realizes that
the whole audience is being hypnotized and he is the only one immune to these
mind controls. “Everyone! Listen to me… the Governor has been kidnapped!”
I wonder… what level and/or to what degree
individuals or groups (public, private, or secret) would go to hypnotize
others? By hypnotize, I mean ‘any’ form of control. Whether it’s mental,
emotional, spiritual, or physical. We have recently heard of the IRS and other
US Government agencies spying on people… for what purpose and to what end ?!
We’ve nothing to fear but fear? Really?
Guess my three readers and I will now be ‘targets’ just for
mentioning this… all across our country now we could really use a visit from
The Shadow to protect the innocent . . . All because ‘Crime Does Not Pay’ (unless
you work for Big Brother).
More When I'm Inspired to . . .
Your Humble Servant,
Jahmahn
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