05 septembrie 2016

Watch World War Three (on Pay Tv)

 And you buy this bullshit
 
At soul level,
 
And you plead for more of the same
 
From the idiot box
 
In the corner.
Cântecelul e cam în stilul lui Spike Jones...



Watch World War III on pay TV
Television can be such a thrill
Sitting home in your chair
Watch the boys over there
Charging across your TV screen
Getting blown to smithereens

Watch World War III on pay TV
If you want to keep the kids at home
They'll be glued to their sets
Watching rockets and jets
Blowing up schools and factories
Putting an end to the birds and bees

It's worth every penny to tune in and see
Who wins the Emmy
At the ruins of the Academy
Watch World War III on pay TV
Before your television melts away

Think of the close-ups on the screen
Find a face you know
Isn't this better than Bishop Sheen?
Better than the Late, Late Show?
Watching the boys from your home town
Fighting whoever they are
Watching the cities falling down
It's greater than Jack Paar!

They're out setting up the cameras now
Though they don't know just where
Still they've got to prepare
Murrow's there to do his part
Waiting for the war to start

See the hydrogen bomb explode
As those mushrooms appear
You'll be sipping your beer
Zooming in with the Zoomar lens
Watching while the whole world ends

It's worth every penny
To tune in and see
Who wins the Emmy
At the ruins of the Academy
Watch World War III on pay TV
Before your television melts away
Before your television melts away

The Crown City Four [1960]
(Dick Sherman-Milt Larsen)
Pip 1901 'Sing A Song Of Sickness'

Citate din gândirea profundă a europeiştilor RO

Andrei Marga, 1995 ("Filosofia Unificării Europene"): "Identificările etnice ale românilor sunt în mare parte tradiţionale. Acestea caută să abată atenţia de la problemele concrete ale prezentului şi de la nevoia modernizării instituţionale spre abstracţiunile trecutului. Pentru mulţi intelectuali este limpede că naţionalismul, prin demagogia sa, generează stagnarea şi degradarea ce favorizează doar grupuri sociale incapabile să se adapteze lumii moderne. Intrarea în noua Europă, nu doar geografic, ci şi instituţional şi cultural presupune mai mult decât o alegere, presupune o schimbare a modului de gândire, de asumare, pe lângă devizele paneuropene, a unei abordări europene, o abordare disponibilă la compararea performanţelor, orientată spre modernizare şi având ca perspectivă unitatea europeană". 

 

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